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We conducted this study to appreciate the socio\u2010demographic and clinical profile of chronic pain (<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CP<\/jats:styled-content>) with neuropathic characteristics in sub\u2010<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">S<\/jats:styled-content>aharan <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">A<\/jats:styled-content>frican elderly with musculoskeletal pain. From <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">J<\/jats:styled-content>anuary to <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">D<\/jats:styled-content>ecember 2011, we performed a cross\u2010sectional study in all <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">R<\/jats:styled-content>heumatology outpatients over 60 years at the <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">C<\/jats:styled-content>enter for <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">G<\/jats:styled-content>erontology and <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">G<\/jats:styled-content>eriatrics, <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">D<\/jats:styled-content>akar, <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">S<\/jats:styled-content>enegal. In this study, we included patients who experienced musculoskeletal pain for 3 months or longer (<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CP<\/jats:styled-content>) and with a <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">DN4<\/jats:styled-content> score\u2009\u2265\u20094 (<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">NP<\/jats:styled-content>). A complete clinical examination was performed to make the diagnosis of <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">NP<\/jats:styled-content> \u2018definite\u2019 or \u2018probable\u2019, and to identify the aetiologies of <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">NP<\/jats:styled-content>. During the study period, 698 outpatients were examined. There were 394 out of the 549 patients over 60 years who reported <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CP<\/jats:styled-content>. Among them, 28 patients (7.1%) scored \u22654 on the <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">DN4<\/jats:styled-content> questionnaire. Female patients, low educational attainment, manual professions, non\u2010workers and diabetes were associated with <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">NP<\/jats:styled-content> (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.05). The symptoms described by patients with <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">NP<\/jats:styled-content>, often intricate, were lumboradiculalgia (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20099), cervico\u2010brachial neuralgia (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20093), polyneuropathy (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200912) and mononeuropathy (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20096). The presumed aetiologies in patients with <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">NP<\/jats:styled-content> were: chronic spine diseases (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200914), painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20098), Sj\u00f6gren's syndrome (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20091), tarsal tunnel syndrome in rheumatoid arthritis (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20091) and bone metastasis (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20091). No aetiology was identified among three patients. 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