Prevalence and characteristics of chronic body pain in China: a national study

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Published online 2016 Jun 30. doi: 10.1186/s40064-016-2581-y

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Table 3

The percentage of pain in various body locations in the two sexes

	Male	Female	Total	P value
Pain site
Head	29.65	36.71	33.13	<0.0001
Shoulder	24.49	32.41	28.39	<0.0001
Stomach	17.23	20.72	18.95	<0.0001
Abdominal	9.06	16.86	12.90	<0.0001
Waist	22.52	26.38	24.42	<0.0001
Joint	14.66	14.58	14.62	0.12
Limbs	12.69	12.23	12.46	0.08
Chest	6.88	6.19	6.54	0.02
Others	0.39	0.43	0.41	0.64

* P for the difference between sexes