Table 1.
Number of people with different pain diagnoses in a group of 7936 older people (3609 women and 4327 men) with intellectual disabilities (ID) and a referent cohort from the general population (gPop), one-to-one matched by sex and year of birth.
| Type of Pain | gPop | Intellectual Disabilities (ID) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women | Men | Total | Women | Men | Total | |
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| Headaches | 106 (2.9) | 71 (1.6) | 177 (2.2) | 53 (1.5) | 42 (1.0) | 95 (1.2) |
| Musculoskeletal pain | 868 (24.1) | 835 (19.3) | 1703 (21.5) | 537 (14.9) | 480 (11.1) | 1017 (12.8) |
| Pain related to the circulatory and respiratory systems | 381 (10.6) | 380 (8.8) | 761 (9.6) | 206 (5.7) | 251 (5.8) | 457 (5.8) |
| Visceral pain | 422 (11.7) | 292 (6.7) | 714 (9.0) | 407 (11.3) | 454 (10.5) | 861 (10.8) |
| Pain related to the urinary system | 33 (0.9) | 89 (2.1) | 122 (1.5) | 62 (1.7) | 184 (4.3) | 246 (3.1) |