Pain Intensity and Pain Interference in Older Adults: Role of Gender, Obesity and High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Among older adults, pain intensity and pain interference are more common in women than men and associated with obesity and inflammatory markers.

Objective

We examined whether the obesity and pain relationship is mediated by the high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), a nonspecific marker of systemic inflammation, and whether this relationship differs by sex.

Methods

Items from Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 were used to measure pain intensity and pain interference in daily life. Ordinal logistic regression was used to assess the cross-sectional association among body mass index (BMI), hsCRP levels, pain intensity and pain interference using gender-stratified models adjusted for demographic variables.

Results

Participants included 667 commu

SUBMITTER: Eslami V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5154794 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature