CNN Central News & Network-ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: New Delhi. Do women experience more pain than men? A recently published large global medical study has presented important information on this question. The study, published in Nature Medicine, analysed data from more than 6.1 million people across 118 countries and territories. The research included people aged from five years to more than 100 years.
Researchers studied pain in 11 parts of the body. These included the head, face, neck or shoulder, hand or wrist, elbow, chest, back, abdomen, hip, knee, and foot or ankle. The study found that women reported more pain than men in all 11 areas. The differences between women and men were relatively greater for facial pain, headache, and abdominal or stomach-related pain. According to the study, the presence of any kind of bodily pain was also higher among women than men. Women also reported more severe pain and pain spread across the body. Researchers found that the burden of pain increases with age, and in several types of pain this rise is fastest before the age of 55.
Researchers also said pain is not only a problem linked to ageing. Some modifiable factors, such as smoking, obesity and low income, were found to be associated with a share of the global pain burden. However, the study is primarily based on self-reported pain data, so its findings cannot be considered a definitive explanation of the biological causes of pain experience.
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