Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Disabling Chronic Pain: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study

The U.S. National Pain Strategy calls for increased population research on “high impact chronic pain,” i.e., longstanding pain that substantially limits participation in daily activities. Using data from the nationally-representative Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we investigated the prevalence of high-impact chronic pain in U.S. adults over age 50 overall and within population subgroups. We also explored sociodemographic variation in pain-related disability within specific activity domains.

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