• Chronic pain afflicts approximately 20% of the adult population worldwide. • Gender is one of the critical factors influencing the experience of pain. • Women report more severe levels of pain and chronic pain than men. • The response to pain therapy appears to be gender-related. • Sex hormones, endogenous opioid function, genetic factors, and psychosocial mechanisms contribute to gender differences in pain.
Gender and Pain / Melotti, Rita Maria; Fanelli, Andrea; Sorella, Maria Cristina. - ELETTRONICO. - (2019), pp. 237-244. [10.1007/978-3-030-15038-9_24]
Gender and Pain
Melotti, Rita Maria;Sorella, Maria Cristina
2019
Abstract
• Chronic pain afflicts approximately 20% of the adult population worldwide. • Gender is one of the critical factors influencing the experience of pain. • Women report more severe levels of pain and chronic pain than men. • The response to pain therapy appears to be gender-related. • Sex hormones, endogenous opioid function, genetic factors, and psychosocial mechanisms contribute to gender differences in pain.File in questo prodotto:
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