Persistent pain interfering with daily activities is common. Chronic pain has been defined in
many ways. Chronic pain syndrome is a separate entity from chronic pain. Chronic pain is …

The epidemiology of lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis (DS) remains controversial. We
performed a systematic review with the aim of gaining a better understanding of the …

The authors explored gender differences in the prevalence of depression in four chronic
pain conditions and pain severity indices in a national database. In 131,535 adults, the …

Introduction: Estimates of the prevalence of chronic pain worldwide and in Canada are
inconsistent. Our primary objectives were to determine the prevalence of chronic pain by sex …

In this descriptive study of chronic pain in a community sample of 292 women who had
separated from their abusive partners on average 20 months previously, more than one-third …

Methods for classifying chronic pain in population studies are highly variable, and
prevalence estimates ranges from 11% to 64%. Limited knowledge about the persistence of …

This study examined the relationship between a self-reported history of child physical and
sexual abuse and chronic pain among women (N= 3381) in a provincewide community …

Introduction Many earlier studies reported that East Asians and Caucasians have similar
radiographic osteoporotic vertebral fracture (OVF) prevalence. Since elderly Chinese's …

Abstract For the MrOS (Hong Kong) and MsOS (Hong Kong) baseline (BL) studies,
community-dwelling 2,000 Chinese men (mean age: 72.3 years) and 2,000 Chinese women …

Diversos autores han considerado al dolor crónico como un problema de salud pública. Se
ha sugerido que este problema de salud afecta del 25 al 29% de la población general a …