Incidence and disappearance rate of chronic neck and shoulder pain according to sex
| Incidence* (%) | Disappearance† (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Women | Men | Women | |||
| Birth year | n=9028 | n=6100 | p value | n=759 | n=1063 | p value |
| *Among subjects not suffering from chronic neck and shoulder pain in 1990. | ||||||
| †Among subjects who stated they had chronic neck and shoulder pain in 1990. | ||||||
| NS, not significant. | ||||||
| 1953 | 5.2 | 9.5 | 0.001 | 63.8 | 63.2 | NS |
| 1948 | 6.2 | 11.2 | 0.001 | 72.7 | 58.5 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8.3 | 15.3 | 0.001 | 65.1 | 47.9 | 0.001 |
| 1938 | 11.1 | 15.2 | 0.001 | 58.8 | 48.3 | 0.05 |
| All samples | 7.3 | 12.5 | 0.001 | 64.8 | 53.2 | 0.001 |