Women Experience More Pain and Require More Morphine Than Men to Achieve a Similar Degree of Analgesia
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- 1 November 2003
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Anesthesia & Analgesia
- Vol. 97 (5) , 1464-1468
- https://doi.org/10.1213/01.ane.0000080153.36643.83
Abstract
Sex differences in pain perception and in response to opioids have been described, but the findings are inconsistent. We sought to determine the effect of sex on pain perception, morphine consumption, and morphine analgesia after surgery. We designed a prospective cohort study and included 423 womenKeywords
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