Table 1. Prevalence of any pain, joint complaints and knee and hip complaints.

	all participants		women		men
	crude	stand.*	crude	stand. *	crude	stand. *
pain
current	60.4%	59.7%	63.2%	62.6%	56.8%	56.2%
within the last four weeks	74.9%	74.5%	77.5%	77.0%	71.6%	71.4%
joint complaints
current	50.0%	49.3%	52.4%	51.8%	47.0%	46.4%
within the last four weeks	63.4%	62.8%	66.6%	66.0%	59.4%	59.0%
within the last twelve months	68.0%	67.4%	70.9%	70.3%	64.2%	64.1%
predominant site
any knee	31.4%	30.9%	30.9%	30.6%	31.9%	31.6%
knee both sides	9.9%	9.7%	9.6%	9.5%	10.2%	10.2%
any hip	15.6%	15.2%	15.9%	15.8%	15.3%	14.6%
hip both sides	3.5%	3.5%	2.8%	2.9%	4.4%	4.3%
knee & hip	5.7%	5.5%	5.7%	5.8%	5.6%	5.3%

^*stand.: standardized for the population of Herne (reference day: 2004, December 31).