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January 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda MONDAY, Jan. 23 (HealthDay News) — According to the results of a study
in which researchers examined pain scores from tens of thousands of
patients in the United States, women experience more intense pain than
men.
The findings, published in the Jan. 23 issue of the Journal of
Pain, suggest that greater effort is needed to recruit women into
studies in order to determine the reasons for this gender difference, the
Stanford University School of Medicine investigators said.
For the study, the researchers analyzed electronic medical records to
examine more than 160,000 pain scores reported for more than 72,000 adult
patients. The results showed higher pain scores for women in virtually
every disease category. The differences were both statistically and
clinically significant, the authors noted in a Stanford news release.
“In many cases, the reported difference approached a full point on the
1-to-10 scale. How big is that? A pain-score improvement of one point is
what clinical researchers view as indicating that a pain medication is
working,” study senior author Dr. Atul Butte, a professor of systems
medicine in pediatrics, said in the news release.
The overall results tended to confirm previous findings, such as the
fact that women with fibromyalgia or migraine report more pain than men
with those conditions. But the study also identified previously
undocumented gender differences. For example, pain intensity among
patients with acute sinusitis or neck pain is greater in women than in
men.
Butte noted that there are numerous studies showing that women report
more pain than men for a number of diseases.
“We’re certainly not the first to find differences in pain among men
and women. But we focused on pain intensity, whereas most previous studies
have looked at prevalence: the percentage of men versus women with a
particular clinical problem who are in pain,” he said.
“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first-ever systematic use of
data from electronic medical records to examine pain on this large a
scale, or across such a broad range of diseases,” Butte added.
More information
The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has
more about pain.
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