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Mortality rate ratios were adjusted for age group, sex, and study location.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Setting:<\/jats:bold>\n                    North west England.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Participants:<\/jats:bold>\n                    6569 people who took part in two pain surveys during 1991-2.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Main outcome measures:<\/jats:bold>\n                    Pain status at baseline and subsequent mortality.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold>\n                    1005 (15%) participants had widespread pain, 3176 (48%) had regional pain, and 2388 (36%) had no pain. During follow up mortality was higher in people with regional pain (mortality rate ratio 1.21, 95% confidence interval 1.01 to 1.44) and widespread pain (1.31, 1.05 to 1.65) than in those who reported no pain. The excess mortality among people with regional and widespread pain was almost entirely related to deaths from cancer (1.55 (1.09 to 2.19) for regional pain and 2.07 (1.37 to 3.13) for widespread pain). The excess cancer mortality remained after exclusion of people in whom cancer had been diagnosed before the original survey and after adjustment for potential confounding factors. There were also more deaths from causes other than disease (for example, accidents, suicide, violence) among people with widespread pain (5.21, 0.94 to 28.78).\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold>\n                    There is an intriguing association between the report of widespread pain and subsequent death from cancer in the medium and long term. This may have implications for the long term follow up of patients with \u201cunexplained\u201d widespread pain symptoms, such as those with fibromyalgia.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:boxed-text position=\"float\">\n                      <jats:sec>\n                        <jats:title>What is already known on this topic<\/jats:title>\n                        <jats:p>Widespread body pain, the cardinal symptom of fibromyalgia, is common<\/jats:p>\n                        <jats:p>An organic basis for symptoms is found in only a small proportion of people Treatment is difficult, and studies with short term follow up have shown that symptoms commonly persist<\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:sec>\n                      <jats:sec>\n                        <jats:title>What this study adds<\/jats:title>\n                        <jats:p>This was the first study with long term follow up of people with widespread pain in the community<\/jats:p>\n                        <jats:p>These people experience an increased mortality and the excess is principally related to deaths from cancer<\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:sec>\n                    <\/jats:boxed-text>\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.323.7314.662","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2002,7,27]],"date-time":"2002-07-27T06:30:44Z","timestamp":1027751444000},"page":"662","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":190,"title":["Widespread body pain and mortality: prospective population based studyCommentary: An interesting finding, but what does it mean?"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"323","author":[{"given":"Gary J","family":"Macfarlane","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"I K","family":"Crombie","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"John","family":"McBeth","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alan J","family":"Silman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2001,9,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025122110363282000_323.7314.662.1","first-page":"710","article-title":"The prevalence of chronic widespread pain in the general population.","volume":"20","author":"Croft","year":"1993","journal-title":"J Rheumatol"},{"key":"2025122110363282000_323.7314.662.2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"19","DOI":"10.1002\/art.1780380104","article-title":"The prevalence and characteristics of fibromyalgia in the general population.","volume":"38","author":"Wolfe","year":"1995","journal-title":"Arthritis Rheum"},{"key":"2025122110363282000_323.7314.662.3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"146","DOI":"10.3109\/03009749609080005","article-title":"Characteristics of subjects with chronic pain, in relation to local and widespread pain report.","volume":"25","author":"Anderson","year":"1996","journal-title":"Scand J Rheumatol"},{"key":"2025122110363282000_323.7314.662.4","first-page":"1570","article-title":"The London fibromyalgia epidemiology study: the prevalence of fibromyalgia syndrome in London, Ontario.","volume":"26","author":"White","year":"1999","journal-title":"J Rheumatol"},{"key":"2025122110363282000_323.7314.662.5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/rheumatology\/38.3.275"},{"key":"2025122110363282000_323.7314.662.6","first-page":"1551","article-title":"Pain, functional disability, and psychological status: a 12-month study of severity in fibromyalgia.","volume":"15","author":"Hawley","year":"1988","journal-title":"J Rheumatol"},{"key":"2025122110363282000_323.7314.662.7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/rheumatology\/40.1.95"},{"key":"2025122110363282000_323.7314.662.8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1889","DOI":"10.1097\/00007632-199509000-00009","article-title":"Estimating the prevalence of low back pain in the general population: evidence from the south Manchester back pain survey.","volume":"20","author":"Papageorgiou","year":"1995","journal-title":"Spine"},{"key":"2025122110363282000_323.7314.662.9","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"160","DOI":"10.1002\/art.1780330203","article-title":"The American College of Rheumatology 1990 criteria for the classification of fibromyalgia: report of the multi-center criteria committee.","volume":"33","author":"Wolfe","year":"1990","journal-title":"Arthritis Rheum"},{"key":"2025122110363282000_323.7314.662.10","unstructured":"Goldberg D Williams P .The user's guide to the general health questionnaire. 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