[PDF] Top 20 Individual differences and health in chronic pain: are sex-differences relevant?

... in pain research and pain-related outcomes. Sex differences are considered because pain is experienced differently across sex ...consecutive chronic pain patients ... See full document

... in pain treatment across ethnic groups, Green and colleagues noted that health care disparities are not attributable to any one factor: patient attitudes play a role, as noted above, as do the attitudes of ... See full document

... increased pain sensitivity and disruption of endogenous pain inhibitory processes may account, at least in part, for the greater prevalence and severity of chronic pain in women compared to ... See full document

... of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act mandated the inclusion of women in clinical trials, so that the outcome of all NIH-funded clinical research would generate data that is relevant to individuals of both ... See full document

... pronounced sex differences on the subscales with less serious outcomes, again raises the question if higher levels of anxiety in females than in males might influence the Severe Pain ...subscale. ... See full document

... no relevant improvement under prior conservative treatment for one year, patients about to undergo surgical or further conservative treatment, age 18–65 years at beginning of treatment, good understand- ing of ... See full document

... to sex differences in OA pain is limited, although there is a growing literature on social factors related to knee OA surgery ...with pain, how they think, interpret and report pain, as ... See full document

... A further finding with respect to natural and artifact categories is that they differ in terms of vagueness, i.e., whether membership in the given category is absolute (all-or- none) or graded (a matter of degree; see ... See full document

... an individual has been sitting calmly for a few minutes because blood pressure can be elevated by physical activity and emo- tional ...normotensive individual who exhibits increased SBP and DBP of at least ... See full document

... Understanding of religious conversion has evolved in the last thirty years. For example, Greil (1977) understood mankind as a seeking animal, a being that sought meaning in a world often bereft of purpose. The need for ... See full document

... in the incidence of certain infectious dis- eases by searching the literature and study- ing the case records of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.. MATERIALS AND METHODS.[r] ... See full document

... important sex differences in ...These differences between the sexes can be seen as a subset of the more general phenomenon of sexual dimorphism of quantitative ...and sex-chromosomes have ... See full document

... Antunez et al. (2013) cited a majority of people don’t use nutrition information to make their food-related decisions (Cowburn and Stockley, 2005; Graham, Orquin, Visschers, 2012; Grunert and Wills, 2012), despite up to ... See full document

... four possible types of children: (1) difficult children- low threshold, little dampening ability; (2) high-reac- tive children-low threshold, high dampening ability; (3) low-reactive chi[r] ... See full document

... on individual differences in the area of Human Computer Interaction ...regarding individual differences refer to general intelligence as a top level, which includes eight general ... See full document

... To evaluate the use of the previously described set of strategies, we conducted human subject experi- mentation to simulate an online social network en- vironment where participants were tasked with en- gaging in a ... See full document

... - sex chromosome comple- ment, compared to the XX, was relatively more stimula- tory with respect to cytokine responses (IFNg, TNFa, IL10) during autoantigen specific stimulation supported the concept of direct ... See full document

... the sex differences in stroke severity in several (5/6) ...including chronic in fl ammation, that play an important role in the pathogenesis of IS and the severity of brain tissue ... See full document

... Results: Of the patients with COPD, 51% reported sleep disturbances as compared with 31% in controls (P=0.008). Sleep disturbances were significantly more prevalent in males with COPD compared with controls, whereas ... See full document

... Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is characterized by proliferation and accumulation of malignant B lympho- cytes in the peripheral lymphoid tissues and bone marrow. It is one of the most common leukemias among ... See full document