Abstract
Musculoskeletal pain is reported commonly; however, the extent to which pain in individual body areas reflects the severity of site-specific pathology or a more generalized propensity to feel pain is uncertain. We used a classical twin design to examine the pattern of pain reporting at different body sites among monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins to assess its heritability and to examine evidence for a common underlying propensity to report musculoskeletal pain.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1753-1755 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Rheumatology |
Volume | 49 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sep 2010 |
Keywords
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Multivariate Analysis
- Osteoarthritis
- Pain
- Pain Measurement
- Questionnaires
- Severity of Illness Index
- Twins
- Young Adult