Chronotypes and disabling musculoskeletal pain: A Finnish birth cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It has been suggested that chronotype, the individual preference for 24-h circadian rhythms, influences health. Sleep problems and mental distress are amongst the greatest risk factors for musculoskeletal (MS) pain. The aims of this study were first, to explore the associations between chronotypes and MS pain, with special reference to disabling MS pain and second, to test whether mental distress and insomnia have a modifying role in the associations between chronotypes and MS pain.

Methods

The dataset of 4961 individuals was composed of Northern Finns surveyed on MS pain, chronotypes and confounding factors (sex, insomnia, sleep duration, smoking, mental distress, occupational status, education level and number of coexisting diseases) at 46 years. The relationshi

SUBMITTER: Heikkala E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9310771 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature