Lifetime cigarette smoking and chronic widespread and regional pain in later adulthood: evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine whether different lifetime patterns of cigarette smoking are associated with chronic widespread pain (CWP) and chronic regional pain (CRP) at age 68.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

England, Scotland and Wales.

Participants

Up to 2347 men and women from the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, who have been followed up since birth in 1946 and provided sufficient information on cigarette smoking across adulthood to be classified as never smoker, predominantly non-smoker, predominantly smoker or lifelong smoker and pain assessment at age 68.

Primary outcome measures

Pain was self-reported at age 68, and CWP was defined according to American College of Rheumatology criteria. Participants who repor

SUBMITTER: Bendayan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6119432 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature