ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2023
The Prevalence of Pain in Chronic Diseases: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Efficacy and safety of acupuncture for pain relief: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024Pooled it
- Adults with excess weight or obesity, but not with overweight, report greater pain intensities than individuals with normal weight: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Pooled it
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- Social Determinants of Pain Prevalence: A Cross-National Comparison of Four European Countries.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Assessment of depression and pain in the general population: a scoping review.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Chronic cancer pain in adult oncology centers of Northern Ethiopia: prevalence, determinants, and clinical impact - a multi-center cross-sectional study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Article
- Pain and depression mediate the relationship between multimorbidity and frailty in older adults with diabetes.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Event-related potential evidence that working memory whether inside or outside a virtual reality environment can reduce the extent of attention capture by irrelevant novel stimuli.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- [Research progress on vagus nerve stimulation in the treatment of chronic pain].Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences · 2025Review
- Comparing interpretable machine learning models for fall risk in middle-aged and older adults with and without pain.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Role of TNF-α in Neuropathic Pain: An Immunotherapeutic Perspective.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Effect of a Nutritional Intervention with the Use of Biofortified Beef Meat on Selected Biochemical Parameters in Blood from Older Adults.Nutrients · 2024Article
- From pain to tumor immunity: influence of peripheral sensory neurons in cancer.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
- Conceptualizing and treating the polytrauma clinical triad as a complex chronic pain syndrome.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
Since pain is common in many diseases, it is important to summarize the precise prevalence data on pain and high-impact pain, which frequently worsens the quality of life and work activities. This umbrella review aims to estimate the prevalence of pain among patients with different chronic diseases/conditions. We followed the PRISMA guidelines. We identified the following areas addressing the prevalence of pain: (1) pain in cancer patients; (2) neurodegenerative diseases; (3) chronic heart failure; (4) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; (5) chronic kidney diseases; (6) liver diseases and failure; (7) nursing home seniors; and (8) postamputation (phantom) pain. We included systematic reviews and meta-analyses that reported pain in patients from the mentioned populations. The prevalence of pain in chronic diseases is high, in some cases even higher than the cardinal symptoms of these diseases/conditions. Most patients who suffer from any of these diseases/conditions can develop chronic pain at later stages. Pain in chronic diseases does not receive enough attention and is not properly managed. Future studies are warranted to establish a more precise prevalence of chronic pain and develop better methods of pain screening, detection, and management.
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