Women claim to feel pain more than men

Women have been reported to feel pain more intensely than their male counterparts in almost every disease category, according to a recent study.

Stanford University researchers investigated a huge collection of electronic medical records to establish the gender difference between experiences of pain.

Using the novel database, more than 160,000 pain scores were examined and stratified between when the disease-associated pain was first reported and gender.

It was found that men do not feel pain as intensely as women, causing study participants to call for a greater effort to be made to recruit women subjects in population and clinical studies to find out why this difference exists.

Dr Atul Butte, the study's senior author, commented: "To the best of our knowledge, this is the first-ever systematic use of data from electronic medical records to examine pain on this large a scale, or across such a broad range of diseases."

It has previously been found that male and female brains respond differently to pain.

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