{"id":3739,"date":"2018-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/13\/elder-abuse-not-associated-with-risk-of-chronic-pain\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:09:34","slug":"elder-abuse-not-associated-with-risk-of-chronic-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/13\/elder-abuse-not-associated-with-risk-of-chronic-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Elder Abuse Not Associated With Risk of Chronic Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Findings based on two-year follow-up of a large, community-dwelling cohort in Malaysia<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, April 13, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Elder abuse and neglect (EAN) is not tied to the risk of chronic pain, according to a study published online March 30 in the <i>Journal of the American Geriatrics Society<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Raudah M. Yunus, M.P.H., from University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, and colleagues assessed the cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between EAN and chronic pain in 1,189 community-dwelling, rural Malaysians (aged \u226560 years).<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that the prevalence of chronic pain was 20.4 percent. Eight factors were significantly associated with chronic pain, including age, education, income, comorbidities, self-rated health, depression, gait speed, and EAN. Abused elderly adults were more likely to have chronic pain (odds ratio, 1.52; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.03 to 2.27), although the significance decreased in longitudinal analyses (risk ratio, 1.14; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.81 to 1.60).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our findings indicate no temporal relationship between EAN and chronic pain but indicated cross-sectional associations between the two,&#8221; the authors write. &#8220;This might indicate that, although EAN does not lead to chronic pain, individuals with greater physical limitations are more vulnerable to abuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jgs.15370\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings based on two-year follow-up of a large, community-dwelling cohort in Malaysia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3759,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions\/3759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}