ArticlePain reports2024
Chronic widespread pain and cause of death: a 25-year follow-up study.
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- Risk of cancer incidence and mortality in patients with chronic pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Cancer metastasis reviews · 2026Pooled it
- Factors predicting health-enhancing physical activity in patients with chronic widespread pain following a person-centred health plan.Annals of medicine · 2026Trial
- REACH-BMAS (Body-Map Auto-Segmentation): screening body-map drawings for chronic widespread pain.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Chronic pain and mortality risk among middle-age and older Japanese: the Shika town cohort study.Pain reports · 2025Article
- Subcutaneous Lidocaine Infusion for Chronic Widespread Pain: A Chart Review and Survey Examining the Safety and Tolerability of Treatment.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Chronic pain is a risk factor for all-cause and cancer-specific mortality in cancer survivors: a population-based cohort study.BMC public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Chronic widespread pain (CWP) has been suggested as a risk factor for mortality in cardiovascular diseases and malignancies. Different definition of CWP makes it difficult to compare previous studies. Objectives: The aim was to study whether mortality and certain causes of death were increased among people with CWP and whether the definition of CWP influenced outcome. Methods: This 25-year follow-up study included 2425 people from the general population, at baseline divided into 3 pain groups: CWP, chronic regional pain, and no chronic pain (NCP). Chronic widespread pain was defined according to the ACR1990 (CWP Results: Overall mortality was not higher in people with CWP Conclusion: The more stringent WP2019 definition of CWP showed an excess risk for death, especially within diseases of the circulatory system. The results suggest that WP2019 defines a more vulnerable group in the population. Chronic widespread pain should be acknowledged in the clinic as a risk factor for increased mortality.
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