Frequency of back pain, poor health and functional impairment, by sex and relative position
| Sex | Variable | Relative position3-150 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adjacent | Non-adjacent | ||||||
| (n=68) | (n=77) | ||||||
| Women | Back pain†: | Current | (%) | 42.7 | 39 | ||
| Past year | (%) | 66.2 | 59.7 | ||||
| Functional impairment‡ | (%) | 49.21 | 42.1 | ||||
| Poor health§ | (%) | 35.3 | 28.6 | ||||
| (n=64) | (n=63) | ||||||
| Men | Back pain†: | Current | (%) | 32.8 | 33.3 | ||
| Past year | (%) | 51.6 | 52.4 | ||||
| Functional impairment‡ | (%) | 24.2 | 30.2 | ||||
| Poor health§ | (%) | 20.3 | 20.6 | ||||
↵3-150 Subjects with two deformities. †Yesv no. ‡Difficulty performing ⩾5 ADLsv No difficulty or difficulty performing <5 ADLs. §Poor, Not so good v Satisfactory, Good, Very Good. 1p<0.05, Compared with those with no deformity.