terça-feira, 21 de junho de 2016

Quase metade da população adulta do RU (28 M) pode estar a sofrer de dor crónica

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2016/06June/Pages/Almost-half-of-all-UK-adults-may-be-living-with-chronic-pain.aspx


"The researchers used data from 19 studies that included almost 140,000 adults. They extrapolated the results to come up with the estimate that around 43% of people in the UK experience chronic pain [pain for more than 3 monthes]. More adults aged 75 or over (62%) experienced pain than those aged 18 to 25 (14.3%).
There are limitations to this study that affect the reliability, the main one being that this type of review can only be as good as the included studies. In this case, there weren't many good-quality studies and there was a lot of variation in their findings."