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SUBMITTER: Dixon WG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6811599 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dixon William G WG Beukenhorst Anna L AL Yimer Belay B BB Cook Louise L Gasparrini Antonio A El-Hay Tal T Hellman Bruce B James Ben B Vicedo-Cabrera Ana M AM Maclure Malcolm M Silva Ricardo R Ainsworth John J Pisaniello Huai Leng HL House Thomas T Lunt Mark M Gamble Carolyn C Sanders Caroline C Schultz David M DM Sergeant Jamie C JC McBeth John J
NPJ digital medicine 20191024
Patients with chronic pain commonly believe their pain is related to the weather. Scientific evidence to support their beliefs is inconclusive, in part due to difficulties in getting a large dataset of patients frequently recording their pain symptoms during a variety of weather conditions. Smartphones allow the opportunity to collect data to overcome these difficulties. Our study <i>Cloudy with a Chance of Pain</i> analysed daily data from 2658 patients collected over a 15-month period. The ana ...[more]