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Prevalence of pain and use of prescription opioids among older adults: results from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil)

BACKGROUND: Pain has a significant impact on people's quality of life. The use of prescription opioids to treat pain is associated with an increased risk of opioid use disorders and overdose death. We measured the prevalence of recurrent pain, prescription opioid use, and associations between c...

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Autores principales: Mullachery, Pricila H., Lima-Costa, Maria Fernanda, de Loyola Filho, Antônio Ignácio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9996352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36908501
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2023.100459