Chronic Pain, Overweight, and Obesity: Findings from a Community-Based Twin Registry

Journal of Pain

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 628-635

  Wright, Lisa Johnson ^a   Schur, Ellen ^c   Noonan, Carolyn ^c   Ahumada, Sandra ^a   Buchwald, Dedra ^c   Afari, Niloofar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; genetics; heritability; obesity; twins

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE; OBESITY; REGISTER; SYMPTOM; TENSION HEADACHE; TWINS;

ADULT; CAUSALITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; WASHINGTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953872817     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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