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标题：Pain and mortality among older adults in Korea
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作者：Chiil Song ; Wankyo Chung
期刊名称：Epidemiology and Health
印刷版ISSN：2092-7193
出版年度：2021
卷号：43
DOI：10.4178/epih.e2021058
语种：English
出版社：Taehan P'ibu Kwahakhoe
摘要：With the increasing elderly population with chronic disease, understanding pain and designing appropriate policy interventions to it have become crucial. While pain is a noted mortality risk factor, limited studies exist due to the various causes of pain and the subjectivity of pain expression. This study aimed to examine the relationship between pain and mortality, controlling for other diseases and socio-cultural factors. METHODS We analyzed 6,258 individuals aged 45 years or older, the population with the highest prevalence of pain, using the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (2006-2016) data and the Cox proportional-hazards model. Further subgroup analyses were conducted by sex and education level to examine differences in the relationship between pain and mortality. RESULTS The adjusted hazard ratios of mortality were 1.16 (95% confidence interval [CI
关键词：Pain; Mortality; Proportional hazards models; Korea