Over-indebtedness and its association with the prevalence of back pain

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Association between lifestyle and medical factors and back pain in the over-indebted OI-cohort and the general population of the GNT-HIS

	OI-survey (n = 949)						GNT-HIS (n = 8318)
	Total		Back pain		Unadjusted odds ratios		Total		Back pain		Unadjusted odds ratios
	n = 949	%	n = 767	%	OR	95%CI	n = 8318	%	N = 1849	%	OR	95%CI
Smoking behaviour
daily	537	56.6	431	80.3			2216	26.6	491	22.2
sometimes	61	6.4	51	83.6	1.25	0.62-2.55	602	7.2	135	22.4	1.02	0.82-1.26
ex-smoker	168	17.7	141	83.9	1.28	0.81-2.04	2238	26.9	509	22.7	1.03	0.90-1.19
non-smoker	174	18.3	138	79.3	0.94	0.62-1.44	3260	39.2	713	21.9	0.98	0.87-1.12
Sports/work-out
no sports	520	54.8	423	81.3			3027	36.4	760	25.1
<1 hour/week	266	28.0	229	86.1	1.42	0.94-2.14	828	10.0	206	24.9	0.99	0.83-1.18
1-2 hours/week	78	8.2	65	83.3	1.15	0.61-2.16	1292	15.5	277	21.4	0.81	0.70-0.95
>2 hrs/week	67	7.1	40	59.7	0.34	0.20-0.58	3134	37.7	597	19.0	0.70	0.62-0.79
BMI
underweight and normal weight	401	42.3	324	80.8			4378	52.6	887	20.3
over-weight	306	32.2	234	76.7	0.79	0.55-1.13	2830	34.0	627	22.3	1.14	1.02-1.28
obesity	238	25.1	206	86.6	1.53	0.98-2.39	938	11.3	286	30.5	1.73	1.48-2.02
4Mental illness (e. g. depression)
no	580	61.1	449	77.4			7529	90.5	1528	20.3
yes	369	38.9	318	86.2	1.82	1.28-2.59	783	9.4	319	40.7	2.70	2.32-3.15

Bold print: statistically significant results; level of significance p < 0.05

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