What does a new global study tell us about women’s pain and how it is treated? | In Focus Podcast

THGU8904318145.mp3 megaphone Did you know that pain is considered the leading cause of disability in the world? A large global study on pain, published recently looked at how pain is distributed around the world and how pain affects people across their lifespans.

The results were interesting. Some of the findings were that women report suffering more pain than men.

Pain rises steeply before the age of 55 and 18.3% of the global pain burden was due to smoking, obesity and low household incomes. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04696-w What a new global study on pain reveals about women’s experiences What a new global study on pain reveals about women’s experiences The study’s findings about women having a higher prevalence of pain across anatomical sites, resonate with observations from India, say experts, noting that even so, women’s pain has historically been under-recognised, misunderstood, or inadequately treated What a new global study on pain reveals about women’s experiences storyline 1 This comes amidst rising concerns about the gender pain gap: that even though…