ArticleWomen's midlife health2022
Pain in midlife women: a growing problem in need of further research.
Article in Women's midlife health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Pain in your day? Get sleep treatment anyway! The role of pain in insomnia treatment efficacy in women veterans.Journal of sleep research · 2024Trial
- Chronic pain prevalence and severity in females before & after menopause versus males in a large multi-center database.Pain management · 2025Observational
- Women's Pain Management Across the Lifespan-A Narrative Review of Hormonal, Physiological, and Psychosocial Perspectives.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Navigating Pregnancy Testing in Chronic Pain Management for Women of Reproductive Age.Journal of pain research · 2025Review
- How preclinical models of menopause can inform clinical care: A focus on midlife and reciprocal communication between clinical and preclinical science.Current opinion in endocrine and metabolic research · 2023Article
- Somatosensory and Gustatory Profiling in the Orofacial Region.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Gut Microbiota as a Therapeutic Target for Chronic Pain Disorders.Innovations in clinical neuroscienceArticle
- The volume and characteristics of research on gastrointestinal symptoms in 'natural' peri- and postmenopause: A scoping review.Women's health (London, England)Article
- Ecological Momentary Assessment of Associations Between Sleep Quality, Stress, and Pain Among Women in Midlife with Risk for Cardiovascular Disease.Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.)Article
- Construction and validation of chronic pain prediction model after total knee arthroplasty.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesArticle
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Abstract
More than 10% of American adults experience some level of daily pain, and nearly 40 million (17.6%) experience episodes of severe pain annually. Women are particularly impacted by both episodic and chronic pain with higher prevalence and a greater level of pain-related disability compared to men. Midlife is a critical period for women during which the frequency of pain complaints begins to increase. Although pain is known to be influenced and controlled by sex hormones, it has not been widely recognized as a symptom of the menopausal transition outside of the menopause research community. The recent thematic series in this journal has specifically highlighted pain related conditions including rheumatoid arthritis, migraine and abdominal pain for which the significance among midlife women is not typically recognized. The studies presented in this thematic series present a small fraction of relevant, understudied questions regarding pain and its impact on women in midlife. Addressing the gaps in knowledge will require longitudinal studies that consider the emergence of pain symptomatology in relation to midlife trajectories of other symptoms and health determinants, as well as further study of new and emerging therapies.
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