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dc.contributor.authorFarbu, Erlend Hoftun
dc.contributor.authorRypdal, Martin
dc.contributor.authorSkandfer, Morten
dc.contributor.authorSteingrimsdottir, Olöf Anna
dc.contributor.authorBrenn, Tormod
dc.contributor.authorStubhaug, Audun
dc.contributor.authorNielsen, Christopher Sivert
dc.contributor.authorHöper, Anje Christina
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-16T14:42:29Z
dc.date.available2022-03-16T14:42:29Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-09
dc.description.abstractIt is a common belief that weather affects pain. Therefore, we hypothesized that weather can affect pain tolerance. This study used data from over 18,000 subjects aged 40 years or older from the general population, who participated in the Tromsø Study 7. They underwent a one-time assessment of cuff algometry pressure pain tolerance (PPT) and cold pain tolerance (CPT), tested with a cold pressor test. The results showed a clear seasonal variation in CPT. The rate of withdrawal in the cold pressor test was up to 75% higher in months in the warmer parts of the year compared with January 2016. There was no seasonal variation in PPT. The study not only found a nonrandom short-term variation in PPT but also indications of such a variation in CPT. The intrinsic timescale of this short-term variation in PPT was 5.1 days (95% % confidence interval 4.0-7.2), which is similar to the observed timescales of meteorological variables. Pressure pain tolerance and CPT correlated with meteorological variables, and these correlations changed over time. Finally, temperature and barometric pressure predicted future values of PPT. These findings suggest that weather has a causal and dynamic effect on pain tolerance, which supports the common belief that weather affects pain.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFarbu, Rypdal, Skandfer, Steingrimsdottir, Brenn, Stubhaug, Nielsen, Höper. To tolerate weather and to tolerate pain: two sides of the same coin? The Tromsø Study 7. Pain. 2021:1-9en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1965008
dc.identifier.doi10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002437
dc.identifier.issn0304-3959
dc.identifier.issn1872-6623
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/24429
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherLippincott, Williams & Wilkinsen_US
dc.relation.journalPain
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleTo tolerate weather and to tolerate pain: two sides of the same coin? The Tromsø Study 7en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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