Open AccessEffect of Age on Response to Experimental Pain in Normal Indian Males
Author(s) -
Indu Saxena,
M. Kumar,
Abhijeet S. Barath,
Amita Verma,
Sumit Garg
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2015/15385.6516
Subject(s) - blood pressure , medicine , body mass index , pain tolerance , basal (medicine) , threshold of pain , analysis of variance , pulse pressure , obesity , cold pressor test , physical therapy , anesthesia , heart rate , insulin
Response to experimental pain depends on the nature of the pain stimulus, as well as on gender, racial, cultural and socioeconomic factors. This study investigates the effect of age on pain sensitivity and cardiovascular reactivity produced by experimental pain. We have also compared the values of body mass index (BMI) and resting blood pressure of volunteers with the normal values.