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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 19.
Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2023 Mar 30;164(9):1942–1953. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002891

Table 3.

Pain prevalence ratios for sexual minority adults, different covariate sets

Model 1 Model 2
PANEL A. Pain in 3+ sites
Sexual identity (straight)
 Gay/lesbian 1.47*** (1.32,1.64) 1.23*** (1.11,1.36)
 Bisexual 2.05*** (1.80,2.34) 1.23*** (1.09,1.39)
 “Something else” 2.33*** (1.88,2.88) 1.42*** (1.17,1.73)
PANEL B. Chronic pain.
Sexual identity (straight)
 Gay/lesbian 1.33*** (1.19,1.49) 1.17** (1.06,1.30)
 Bisexual 1.88*** (1.66,2.14) 1.25*** (1.11,1.41)
 “Something else” 1.89*** (1.58,2.26) 1.31** (1.10,1.54)
**

p<.01

***

p<.001

NHIS 2013–2018, US adults age 18–64. N=134,266 for pain in 3+ sites and N=95,675 for chronic pain, respectively, in both models.

“Something else” was the actual verbatim terminology used on the NHIS survey; it captures other non-heterosexual identified adults. More information about the design of the sexual identity question is available elsewhere [52].

Complex-survey-adjusted (modified/robust) Poisson models of two pain outcomes.

Model 1 adjusts for age, age squared, sex, and year. Model 2 adjusts for all covariates. Complete results with prevalence ratios for all covariates are shown in Supplemental Table S1.