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Studies exploring the association between chronic pain in parents and their offspring have yielded conflicting results. To better understand this relation, investigators analyzed matched health surveys from parents (4400 mothers, 3500 fathers) and adolescents (5370 adolescents; age range, 13–18) conducted in one county in Norway between 2006 and 2008. Most (70%) adolescents lived with both parents.
Among adolescents, 43% (girls, 53%; boys, 33%) reported chronic nonspecific pain (weekly pain of unknown cause in ≥1 location for ≥3 months) and 14% (girls, 19%; boys, 9%) reported chronic multisite pain (chronic pain in ≥3 locations). Prevalence of adolescent pain was lowest among those who lived with both parents (41%) and in families with the h…