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

2026-05-04

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, yet no harmonised self-reported reference framework exists to characterise how its burden is distributed across the lifespan and world regions. 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 p...

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cb2bae8f-f834-5aa5-bcb1-6b2c30fc80db
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-9510059/v1
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