In this post – Almost one quarter of US adults live with chronic pain @ יואל קסלר .קום , we present new data from the CDC on the prevalence of chronic pain in US adults. The original article can be found here.
A summary from the CDC is below:
"Chronic Pain and High-impact Chronic Pain in U.S. Adults, 2023
NCHS Data Brief No. 518, November 2024
Jacqueline W. Lucas, M.P.H., and Inderbir Sohi, M.S.P.H.
Key findings
Data from the National Health Interview Survey
- In 2023, 24.3% of adults had chronic pain, and 8.5% of adults had chronic pain that frequently limited life or work activities (referred to as high-impact chronic pain) in the past 3 months.
- Chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain both increased with age.
- American Indian and Alaska Native non-Hispanic adults were significantly more likely to have chronic pain (30.7%) compared with Asian non-Hispanic (11.8%) and Hispanic (17.1%) adults.
- The percentage of adults with chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain increased with decreasing urbanization level.
Chronic pain (1) and pain that often restricts life or work activities, referred to in this report as high-impact chronic pain (2), are the most common reasons adults seek medical care (3), and are associated with decreased quality of life (2,4), opioid misuse (5), increased anxiety and depression (6), and unmet mental health needs (7). In 2019, 20.4% of adults had chronic pain, and 7.4% of adults had high-impact chronic pain (8). This report uses data from the 2023 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to provide updated percentages of adults who experienced chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain in the past 3 months by selected demographic characteristics and urbanization level.
Summary
In 2023, 24.3% of adults experienced chronic pain, and 8.5% of adults experienced high-impact chronic pain (or 34.9% of adults who had chronic pain). Women were more likely than men to experience chronic pain. Chronic pain was also generally higher in American Indian and Alaska Native adults and those age 65 and older. Similarly, high-impact chronic pain was higher in women, American Indian and Alaska Native adults, and those age 65 and older. Percentages of adults who had chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain in the past 3 months increased with decreasing urbanization level. NHIS continues to be an important source of chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain data (9)."
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