Table 3.

Pain status and subsequent mortality from cancer (in subcohort free from cancer diagnosis at time of original survey)

	Person years of follow up	Deaths		Mortality rate ratio (95% CI)†
		No	Rate*
No pain	18 862	38	2.01	1.00
Regional pain	24 281	88	3.62	1.66 (1.13 to 2.43)
Widespread pain	7 588	42	5.54	2.27 (1.46 to 3.54)

^*Per 1000 person years. 

^†Adjusted for age, sex, and study population.