Glucose regulation and pain in older people : The Helsinki Birth Cohort Study
Åström, M. J., von Bonsdorff, M. B., Haanpää, M., Salonen, M. K., Kautiainen, H., & Eriksson, J. G. (2021). Glucose regulation and pain in older people : The Helsinki Birth Cohort Study. Primary care diabetes, 15(3), 561-566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcd.2021.02.001
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2021Discipline
Gerontologia ja kansanterveysGerontologian tutkimuskeskusHyvinvoinnin tutkimuksen yhteisöGerontology and Public HealthGerontology Research CenterSchool of WellbeingCopyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Primary Care Diabetes Europe.
Aims
To assess if individuals with diabetes or prediabetes report more pain or have increased use of pain medication compared to normoglycaemic individuals.
Methods
Using cross-sectional data, we studied 928 men and 1075 women from the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study in 2001–2004 at a mean age of 61.5 years. Glucose regulation was assessed with a 2-h 75 g oral glucose tolerance test, and applying World Health Organization criteria, participants were defined as having normoglycaemia, prediabetes (impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance), newly diagnosed diabetes or previously diagnosed diabetes. Self-reported pain intensity and interference during the previous 4 weeks was estimated using the RAND 36-Item Health Survey 1.0. Information on use of pain medication during the past 12 months was obtained from the Social Insurance Institution of Finland.
Results
There was no difference in pain intensity or interference between glucose regulation groups for neither men nor women after adjusting for covariates (age, body mass index, education years, Beck Depression Inventory and physical activity). In addition, use of pain medication was similar between glucose regulation groups.
Conclusions
Although pain is a common symptom in the general population, impairments in glucose regulation alone does not seem to increase pain among older individuals.
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This work was supported by Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research; Juho Vainio Foundation; Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation; Samfundet Folkhälsan; Finska Läkaresällskapet; Medicinska Understödsföreningen Liv och Hälsa; European Commission FP7 DORIAN [grant number 278603]; EU H2020-PHC-2014-DynaHealth [grant number 633595]; and Academy of Finland [grant number 257239 to MBvB; grant numbers 129369, 129907, 135072, 129255, 126775 to JGE]. ...License
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