PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Blair H Smith
AU  - Alison M Elliott
AU  - Philip C Hannaford
TI  - Pain and subsequent mortality and cancer among women in the Royal College of General Practitioners Oral Contraception Study.
DP  - 2003 Jan 01
TA  - British Journal of General Practice
PG  - 45--46
VI  - 53
IP  - 486
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/53/486/45.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/53/486/45.full
SO  - Br J Gen Pract2003 Jan 01; 53
AB  - Recent research suggested associations between pain and subsequent all-cause and cancer-specific mortality. This study examined death and cancer development within six years of reporting pain, among women in the Royal College of General Practitioners Oral Contraception Study. We found no associations between 'any' or 'chronic' pain and subsequent all-cause mortality or cancer. We found a higher risk of death from respiratory disease among women reporting pain (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 2.5), a higher mortality among women reporting chronic chest pain (AOR = 1.75), and a higher risk of subsequent cancer among women reporting head or abdomen pain. Given the high prevalence of pain symptoms, these findings may be important, and warrant further research.