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Table 3 Pain severity (according to the Visual Analogue Scale) for Patients Reporting Each Illness

From: Pain severity predicts depressive symptoms over and above individual illnesses and multimorbidity in older adults

 

Illness Not Present

Illness Present

 

Mean (Standard Deviation)

Mean (Standard Deviation)

*Respiratory disease

1.95 (2.5)

2.43 (2.5)

Heart condition

2.08 (2.6)

1.91 (2.4)

Diabetes

2.00 (2.5)

2.19 (2.7)

Vascular disease

1.98 (2.5)

2.49 (2.8)

Neurological condition

2.01 (2.5)

2.45 (2.7)

***Arthritis

1.05 (1.9)

3.02 (2.7)

**Kidney or urinary tract disease

1.97 (2.5)

2.71 (2.6)

Cancer

1.99 (2.6)

2.29 (2.3)

***Osteoporosis

1.81 (2.5)

2.93 (2.7)

***Chronic pain

1.42 (2.1)

4.73 (2.7)

***Multi-morbidity

1.07 (2.0)

2.78 (2.7)

***Depressive symptoms

1.76 (2.3)

2.82 (3.0)

  1. Key. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001