A Data-Driven Biopsychosocial Framework Determining the Spreading of Chronic Pain

2022-07-22 pain medicine Title + abstract only

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Chronic pain conditions are complex syndromes characterized by a mosaic of biological, psychological, and social factors. We derived predictive models for the number of co- existing pain sites in the UK Biobank and identified a common risk score that classified different chronic pain conditions in cross-sectional data, predicted the development of chronic pain in pain-free individuals, and determined the spreading of chronic pain to multiple sites or its recovery nine years later. The features w...