Long-term changes in biopsychosocial characteristics related to temporomandibular disorder: findings from the OPPERA study.

ABSTRACT: Painful temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) are both consequence and cause of change in multiple clinical, psychosocial, and biological factors. Although longitudinal studies have identified antecedent biopsychosocial factors that increase risk of the TMD onset and persistence, little is known about long-term change in those factors after TMD develops or remits. During a 7.6-year median follow-up period, we measured change in psychosocial characteristics, pain sensitivity, cardiovascular indicators of autonomic function, and clinical jaw function among 189 participants whose baseline chronic TMD status either persisted or remitted and 505 initially TMD-free participants, 83 of whom developed TMD. Among initially TMD-free participants who developed TMD, symptoms and pain sensitivity increase

SUBMITTER: Fillingim RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6193833 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature