Cumulative adulthood trauma exposures and pain outcomes among older adults
Yeonwoo Kim, Lisa S. Panisch, Soeun Jang · 2026
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Yeonwoo Kim and colleagues used a long-running United States survey to ask whether hard events in adult life raise the chance of later pain among older people. Their 2026 analysis drew on the Health and Retirement Study, which follows adults aged 50 and older.
The sample held 6,724 people who reported no pain in the prior ten years, and pain was tracked over six years. Those who had lived through two or more adult traumatic events faced a higher risk of new pain, with an odds ratio of 1.34, even after childhood trauma and health factors were counted. One event alone showed no clear link, so repeated adult trauma stood out.
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| CREATOR | Yeonwoo Kim, Lisa S. Panisch, Soeun Jang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33907 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |