CF 179: Working Class Rising Death Rates & Nutrition Affects Chronic Pain Today we’re going to talk about the fact that there are rising death rates among folks that are of working-class age. Not just the elderly. Why is that happening? Then we’ll talk about diet and chronic pain. But first, here’s that sweet sweet bumper music OK, we are back and you have found the Chiropractic Forward Podcast where we are making evidence-based chiropractic fun, profitable, and accessible while we make you and your patients better all the way around. We’re the fun kind of research. Not the stuffy, high-brow kind of research. We’re research talk over a couple of beers.
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- A structured search of eight databases was performed up to December 2019.
- A meta-analysis was performed in Review Manager.
- Forty-three studies reporting on 48 chronic pain groups receiving a whole-food dietary intervention were identified
- A visual analog scale was the most commonly reported pain outcome measure, with 17 groups reporting a clinically objective improvement
- Twenty-seven studies reported significant improvement on secondary metabolic measures.
- Twenty-five groups were included in a meta-analysis that showed a significant finding for the effect of diet on pain reduction when grouped by diet type or chronic pain type.
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