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Prevalence of different pain categories based on pain spreading on the bodies of older adults in Sweden: a descriptive-level and multilevel association with demographics, comorbidities, medications, and certain lifestyle factors (PainS65+)
- Source :
- Journal of Pain Research, Journal of Pain Research, Vol Volume 9, Pp 1131-1141 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Dove Press, 2016.
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Abstract
- E Dragioti,1 B Larsson,1 L Bernfort,2 LÅ Levin,2 B Gerdle1 1Pain and Rehabilitation Medicine, 2Division of Health Care Analysis, Department of Medical and Health Sciences (IMH), Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden Background and objective: There is limited knowledge about the prevalence of pain and its relation to comorbidities, medication, and certain lifestyle factors in older adults. To address this limitation, this cross-sectional study examined the spreading of pain on the body in a sample of 6611 subjects ≥65years old (mean age = 75.0years; standard deviation [SD] = 7.7) living in southeastern Sweden.Methods: Sex, age, comorbidities, medication, nicotine, alcohol intake, and physical activity were analyzed in relation to the following pain categories: local pain (LP) (24.1%), regional pain medium (RP-Medium) (20.3%), regional pain heavy (RP-Heavy) (5.2%), and widespread pain (WSP) (1.7%).Results: RP-Medium, RP-Heavy, and WSP were associated more strongly with women than with men (all p85 age groups compared to the 65–69 age group (bothp
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 11787090
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Pain Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid.dedup....47a9311ff44e6a9a584147d956ee02df