Chronic Pain in Latin America: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Their Association with Dementia
Hernan Hernandez, Ariel Caviedes, Lorena Oyanedel, Teresita Ramos Franco, Loreto Olavarria, Agustin Ibañez, Hernando Santamaria‐Garcia, Nilton Custodio, Rosa Montesinos, Martin Alejandro Bruno, Andrea Slachevsky, Carolina Ochoa‐Rosales, Claudia Duran‐Aniotz, Carolina Gonzalez‐Silva · 2025
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Hernan Hernandez and co-authors present a 2025 study of chronic pain in Latin America and its link to dementia. Pain that lasts more than three months is a known risk factor in European and North American groups. In Latin America, how common it is and what drives it were largely unknown.
The team used two national health surveys from Chile covering more than thirty-six hundred people, plus a short pain survey given to dementia patients in four countries. Pain grew more common between the surveys, rising by about thirty percent. Low mobility, anxiety, low mood, poor diet, and low income or schooling were all tied to pain in the Chilean data.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hernan Hernandez, Ariel Caviedes, Lorena Oyanedel, Teresita Ramos Franco, Loreto Olavarria, Agustin Ibañez, Hernando Santamaria‐Garcia, Nilton Custodio, Rosa Montesinos, Martin Alejandro Bruno, Andrea Slachevsky, Carolina Ochoa‐Rosales, Claudia Duran‐Aniotz, Carolina Gonzalez‐Silva |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |