Prevalence of Chronic Pain with Neuropathic Characteristics in the Moroccan General Population: A National Survey

Harifi, G.; Amine, Mohamed; Ouazar, M. Ait; Boujemaoui, Asmae; Ouilki, I.; Rekkab, Imane; Belkhou, A.; Bouchti, I. El; Niamane, R.; Hassani, S. El

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“…In our study NP (DN4 score ≥4) was present in 23% of patients who were followed in Diabetes Outpatient Clinic. Previously reported prevalence of NP in diabetic patients ranges between 14% and 47% [18,19]. Higher prevalance rates in this study may be related with relatively longer diabetes duration and poor glycemic control [18] in our tertiary referral center.…”

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“…Previously reported prevalence of NP in diabetic patients ranges between 14% and 47% [18,19]. Higher prevalance rates in this study may be related with relatively longer diabetes duration and poor glycemic control [18] in our tertiary referral center. Previous studies have shown that DPN affects 40.4% of diabetic patients who attend to the university outpatient clinics in Turkey and also the prevalence of NP in this population was 14.0% [23].…”

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“…Torrance et al, reported an estimated prevalence of chronic pain of neuropathic origin as 8.2% in a cross-sectional study in the United Kingdom population [17]. Previous studies have shown that NP is correlated with older age, female gender, lower educational and socioeconomic status [18]. Prevalence of NP in diabetic patients is reported as 14% [10].…”

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“…In the literature, the prevalence of chronic pain in various settings and countries worldwide is an average of 20 % [82][83][84][85], whereas the prevalence rates reported in two studies among survivors of torture is on average 80 % [86,87] . One therefore could extrapolate that 75 % of chronic pain among survivors of torture is directly related to torture, which in turn allows us to estimate the number of survivors of torture suffering from chronic pain.…”

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Due to its nature, extent and consequences, torture is considered a major public health problem and a serious violation of human rights. Our study aims to set the foundation for a theoretical framework of the costs related to torture. It examines existing challenges and proposes some solutions. Our proposed framework targets policy makers, human rights activists, professionals working in programmes, centres and rehabilitation projects, judges and lawyers, survivors of torture and their families and anyone involved in the prevention and fight against this practice and its consequences. We adopted a methodology previously used in studies investigating the challenges in measuring and valuing productivity costs in health disorders. We identify and discuss conceptual, methodological, political and ethical challenges that studies on the economic and social costs of torture pose and propose alternatives in terms of possible solutions to these challenges. The economic dimension of torture is rarely debated and integrated in research, policies and programmes. Several challenges such as epistemological, methodological, ethical or political ones have often been presented as obstacles to cost studies of torture and as an excuse for not investigating this dimension. In identifying, analysing and proposing solutions to these challenges, we intend to stimulate the integration of the economic dimension in research and prevention of torture strategies.

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“…Chronic neuropathic pain is an important public health problem, which ∼5–8% of the European population suffers with (19). Current treatment regimens are not universally adequate with only 30–50% of patients reporting an appreciable reduction in pain and improvement in their quality of life using the currently available analgesic drugs such as the gabapentinoids, opioids and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Carbamazepine (20).…”

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Cataloging the biomedical world of pain through semi-automated curation of molecular interactions

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The vast collection of biomedical literature and its continued expansion has presented a number of challenges to researchers who require structured findings to stay abreast of and analyze molecular mechanisms relevant to their domain of interest. By structuring literature content into topic-specific machine-readable databases, the aggregate data from multiple articles can be used to infer trends that can be compared and contrasted with similar findings from topic-independent resources. Our study presents a generalized procedure for semi-automatically creating a custom topic-specific molecular interaction database through the use of text mining to assist manual curation. We apply the procedure to capture molecular events that underlie ‘pain’, a complex phenomenon with a large societal burden and unmet medical need. We describe how existing text mining solutions are used to build a pain-specific corpus, extract molecular events from it, add context to the extracted events and assess their relevance. The pain-specific corpus contains 765 692 documents from Medline and PubMed Central, from which we extracted 356 499 unique normalized molecular events, with 261 438 single protein events and 93 271 molecular interactions supplied by BioContext. Event chains are annotated with negation, speculation, anatomy, Gene Ontology terms, mutations, pain and disease relevance, which collectively provide detailed insight into how that event chain is associated with pain. The extracted relations are visualized in a wiki platform (wiki-pain.org) that enables efficient manual curation and exploration of the molecular mechanisms that underlie pain. Curation of 1500 grouped event chains ranked by pain relevance revealed 613 accurately extracted unique molecular interactions that in the future can be used to study the underlying mechanisms involved in pain. Our approach demonstrates that combining existing text mining tools with domain-specific terms and wiki-based visualization can facilitate rapid curation of molecular interactions to create a custom database.Database URL: •••

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Prevalence of Chronic Pain with Neuropathic Characteristics in the Moroccan General Population: A National Survey

Abstract: Chronic pain with neuropathic characteristics is probably more prevalent in the general population than was previously thought and is generally more severe than other chronic pain.

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Utility of DN4 questionnaire in assessment of neuropathic pain and its clinical correlations in Turkish patients with diabetes mellitus

Utility of DN4 questionnaire in assessment of neuropathic pain and its clinical correlations in Turkish patients with diabetes mellitus

Estimating the Costs of Torture: Challenges and Opportunities

Cataloging the biomedical world of pain through semi-automated curation of molecular interactions

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