Pain management and pain characteristics in obese and normal weight patients before joint replacement

Autor: Elisabeth Collin, Juliette Perin, Remy Nizard, Didier Bouhassira, Eliane Nguyen, Célia Lloret-Linares, Jean-François Bergmann, Josephine Thomazeau, Serge Perrot
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 20:611-616
ISSN: 1356-1294
Popis: Rationale, aims and objectives The objective was to compare the extent of pain interference and pain medication among persons who were classified as obese [body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg m−2] and normal weighted (BMI ≤25 kg m−2), before a hip or knee replacement surgery. Methods Patients candidate for an orthopaedic surgery were successively enrolled, over a 6-month period, and classified in either the normal weight (BMI ≤25 kg m−2) or the obese (BMI ≥30 kg m−2) categories. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires with items concerning pain characteristics, pain medication and pain interference. Two standardized questionnaires were associated: the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HAD). Results Fifty-two obese patients (candidates for 24 hip replacements and 28 knee replacements) and 51 non-obese (23 hip replacements and 28 knee replacements) were enrolled. Obese patients suffered from a higher rate of acute pain episodes than non-obese patients (65 versus 44%, P
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