ArticlePain2015
Race effects on temporal summation to heat pain in youth.
Article in Pain, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Does Quantitative Sensory Testing Improve Prediction of Chronic Pain Trajectories? A Longitudinal Study of Youth With Functional Abdominal Pain Participating in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment.The Clinical journal of pain · 2021Trial
- The relation between sleep and pain sensitization in pediatric sickle cell disease.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2026Article
- Differences in Experimental Pain Sensitivity Between Non-African and African American Healthy Individuals and Patients with Painful Chronic Pancreatitis.Journal of pain research · 2026Article
- Biobehavioral Predictors of Pain Intensity, Pain Interference, and Chronic Pain Episodes: A Prospective Cohort Study of African-American Adults.The journal of pain · 2024Article
- Optimizing Temporal Summation of Heat Pain Using a Constant Contact Heat Stimulator.Journal of pain research · 2024Article
- Adversity type and timing predict temporal summation of pain in African-American adults.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Article
- Physical activity, sitting time, and thermal quantitative sensory testing responses in African Americans.Pain reports · 2023Article
- Place and Pain: Association Between Neighborhood SES and Quantitative Sensory Testing Responses in Youth With Functional Abdominal Pain.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2022Article
- A step towards understanding disparities - linking race, ancestry, epigenetics and pain.Epigenomics · 2021Article
- Commentary: Understanding Somatic Symptoms: From Dualism to Systems, Diagnosis to Dimensions, Clinical Judgement to Clinical Science.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2019Article
- Racial differences in experimental pain sensitivity and conditioned pain modulation: a study of Chinese and Indians.Journal of pain research · 2019Article
- Pressure Pain Threshold and Anxiety in Adolescent Females With and Without Juvenile Fibromyalgia: A Pilot Study.The Clinical journal of pain · 2017Article
- Transmission of risk from parents with chronic pain to offspring: an integrative conceptual model.Pain · 2016Review
- Article
- Minority Aging and Endogenous Pain Facilitatory Processes.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2016Article
- Race Effects on Conditioned Pain Modulation in Youth.The journal of pain · 2015Article
- The Role of Chronic Psychosocial Stress in Explaining Racial Differences in Stress Reactivity and Pain Sensitivity.Psychosomatic medicineArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Racial differences in pain responsiveness have been demonstrated in adults. However, it is unclear whether racial differences are also present in youth and whether they extend to experimental pain indices assessing temporal summation of second pain (TSSP). Temporal summation of second pain provides an index of pain sensitivity and may be especially relevant in determining risk for chronic pain. This study assessed pain tolerance and TSSP to evoked thermal pain in 78 healthy youth (age range, 10-17), 51% of whom were African American and 49% were non-Hispanic white. Multilevel models revealed within-individual increases in pain ratings during the temporal summation task in non-Hispanic white youth that were consistent with TSSP. Pain ratings did not change significantly during the temporal summation task in African-American youth. Baseline evoked pain ratings were significantly higher in African-American compared with non-Hispanic white youth. These findings suggest that enhanced responsiveness to evoked thermal pain in African Americans is present in adolescence but is unlikely to be related to elevated TSSP. These results may have implications for understanding racial differences in chronic pain experience in adulthood.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.