Table 3.

Prevalence of neuropathic pain in the general population and in common underlying diseases

General population	6.9 to 10%	Bouhassira et al. (2008), Colloca et al. (2017), Attal et al. (2018)
Central neuropathic pain
Spinal cord injury	53 to 85%	Burke et al. (2017), Hatch et al. (2018)
Stroke	8 to 30%	Delpont et al. (2018)
Multiple sclerosis	29%	Foley et al. (2013)
Peripheral neuropathic pain
Herpes zoster	5 to 67%	Mallick-Searle et al. (2016), Forbes et al. (2016)
Postherpetic neuralgiaa	100% per definition
Diabetes mellitus	~ 20 to 50%	Alleman et al. (2015), Sloan et al. (2018)
HIV neuropathy	~ 20%	Ellis et al. (2010)
Trigeminal neuralgiaa	100% per definition
Post amputation	60%	Manchikanti and Singh (2004)
Post-surgical	10–50%	Borsook et al. (2013)

Most references are specific systematic literature reviews. Some did include questionnaire-based screening for the assessment of NP or telephone interviews for follow-up. Ellis et al. (2010) is about the CHARTER study, a longitudinal cohort study

^aThese diseases are neuropathic pain conditions according to their clinical definition