Table 3.

Prevalence OR^# of chronic musculoskeletal complaints (subdivided to chronic widespread and non-widespread MSCs) related to level of physical activity in HUNT 1 and HUNT 2

Activity level	Total	Chronic MSCs		Chronic widespread MSCs		Chronic non-widespread MSCs
	39520	n	OR (CI)	n	OR (CI)	n	OR (CI)
Hunt 1-Hunt 2
Inactive-inactive	2058	1165	1.0 (ref.)	152	1.0 (ref.)	1013	1.0 (ref.)
Very low-very low	23671	12147	0.9 (0.8–0.9)	1507	0.8 (0.7–0.9)	10640	0.9 (0.8–1.0)
Low-low	2701	1285	0.9 (0.8–0.9)	165	0.8 (0.6–1.0)	1120	0.9 (0.8–1.0)
Medium-medium	925	385	0.8 (0.7–0.9)	31	0.5 (0.3–0.7)	354	0.8 (0.7–1.1)
High-high	558	229	0.7 (0.6–0.9)	36	0.9 (0.6–1.3)	193	0.7 (0.6–0.9)
Increased level	2342	1089	0.8 (0.7–0.9)	142	0.7 (0.6–0.9)	947	0.8 (0.7–0.9)
Decreased level	2227	1249	0.8 (0.7–0.9)	140	0.8 (0.6–1.1)	1109	1.0 (0.9–1.1)
Missing	5038	2674	0.8 (0.7–0.9)	145	0.4 (0.3–0.5)	2529	0.8 (0.7–0.9)

^#Adjusted for age, gender, body mass index, smoking and education.