Obesity and the Receipt of Prescription Pain Medications in the US.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about disparities in pain treatment associated with weight status despite prior research on weight-based discrepancies in other realms of healthcare and stigma among clinicians.

Objective

To investigate the association between weight status and the receipt of prescription analgesics in a nationally representative sample of adults with back pain, adjusting for the burden of pain.

Design

Cross-sectional analyses using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (2010-2017).

Participants

Five thousand seven hundred ninety-one civilian adults age ≥ 18 with back pain.

Main measures

We examine the odds of receiving prescription analgesics for back pain by weight status using logistic regression. We study the odds of receiving (1) any pain p

SUBMITTER: Cho G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8390709 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature