Chronic pain (pain that lasts at least 3 months) is a serious challenge that affects a large number of people: according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, more than one hundred million Americans suffer from chronic pain.
In the new work, researchers studied other people enrolled in the National Survey of Child Development, a study that tracks everyone born in a week in March 1958 in England, Scotland and Wales. The main information on pain used came from the biomedical survey conducted. in 2003, when the maximum of 12,037 respondents was 44 years old. Additional fitness knowledge was collected in 2008, 2013 and 2021.
Overall, two-fifths of other 40-year-olds reported suffering from chronic pain. The study found several predictors of pain at this age, adding the social elegance of a person’s father at birth and pain in the formative years. Both short-term pain and chronic pain at age 44 were linked to pain and poor fitness in later decades of life, with the most powerful associations for chronic pain. Of those who reported chronic pain at age 44, for example, 84% still reported “very severe” pain at age 50. Chronic pain, but not short-term pain, also linked to poor intellectual fitness outcomes, decreased life satisfaction, pessimism about the future, lack of sleep and unemployment at age 55. In addition, the researchers found that pain at age 44 predicted whether a respondent had become inflamed with COVID-19 in the 2021 survey, at age 62, suggesting that pain is linked to fitness vulnerabilities. broader.
The authors conclude that chronic pain manifests the patience of life and is passed down, in part, between generations.
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