Poor sleep linked to widespread pain

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Poor sleep linked to widespread pain

By Shereen Jegtvig NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Regularly feeling tired and worn out after a night's sleep was the strongest predictor of also developing widespread pain in a new study of UK adults over the age of 50. "In older adults widespread pain, that is pain that affects multiple sites in the body, is common and is associated with morbidity and disability including poor mental health and reduced physical functioning," said Ross Wilkie, the study's senior author. Wilkie is a researcher with the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Center of Keele University in Staffordshire. "In this study, reporting musculoskeletal pain was common with just under half of participants reporting some pain and one quarter reporting widespread pain," Wilkie told Reuters Health in an email.

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