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Pain across the lifespan: global and regional reference curves from 6.1 million individuals in 118 countries

2026-05-05

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Pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, yet no population-based reference exists against which individual cohorts, clinical populations, or countries can be benchmarked. Here, we harmonised individual-level self-reported pain data from 6,075,021 participants across 894 population-based data sources in 118 countries to establish global reference trajectories of pain across the lifespan, implemented in an...

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DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.21.26351327

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