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Abstract
A clear majority of patients with chronic pain are women; however, it has been surprisingly difficult to determine whether this sex bias corresponds to actual sex differences in pain sensitivity. A survey of the currently available epidemiological and laboratory data indicates that the evidence for clinical and experimental sex differences in pain is overwhelming. Various explanations for this phenomenon have been given, ranging from experiential and sociocultural differences in pain experience between men and women to hormonally and genetically driven sex differences in brain neurochemistry.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 23165262 DOI: 10.1038/nrn3360
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Rev Neurosci ISSN: 1471-003X Impact factor: 34.870