Researchers say that living everyday with pain and the amount of pain that disrupts daily activities increases the risk of death.

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Finding ways to help people with long-term pain can help them live life to the fullest, be it at work, at home, or in the community."
The study population was drawn from two large population cohorts of adults aged ?50 years; the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, with 6324 participants, and the North Staffordshire Osteoarthritis Project, with 10,985 participants.
Additional studies are needed to determine the mechanisms through which disabling pain may increase the risk of premature death.
"There is much debate about whether people with persistent pain die prematurely and why this might happen. Our study sheds new light by showing that it is not the pain itself that increases the risk of death but the amount of disruption of everyday living linked to having long-term pain," said Dr. Ross Wilkie co-author of the Arthritis Care & Research study.
"The implication is that society must find ways to help people with long-term pain to live life to the full at work, at home, and in the community."
Source-Eurekalert
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