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Pain may not increase linearly with age, with the sharpest rises occurring before the age of 55, says article in @natmed.nature.com. The findings could help researchers to compare pain across populations and improve global pain monitoring and prevention: spklr.io/63323EpmUt
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Global and regional reference curves for pain across the lifespan in 6.1 million individuals in 118 countries - Nature Medicine
Global age- and sex-specific reference curves for 11 pain sites, from 6.1 million people in 118 countries, found higher late-life pain in the lowest Human Development Index (HDI) countries and provide a tool for benchmarking pain assessments in other cohorts.