Blair H Smith

ORCID: 0000-0002-5362-9430 · 3 papers in corpus
2025
Impact of adverse childhood experiences on sensory thresholds in adults living with multimorbidity and chronic pain (the ACE-MAP study): protocol for an observational feasibility study.
BMJ open ·doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2024-091053

IntroductionExposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is associated with a range of poor long-term health outcomes, including multimorbidity and chronic pain. Epidemiological evidence underpins much of this relationship; however, psy…

meta-analysis 2023
The genetic basis of endometriosis and comorbidity with other pain and inflammatory conditions
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-023-01323-z

Endometriosis is a common condition associated with debilitating pelvic pain and infertility. A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, including 60,674 cases and 701,926 controls of European and East Asian descent, identified 42 genom…

2023
Understanding the lived experience of chronic pain: A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative evidence syntheses.
British journal of pain ·doi:10.1177/20494637231196426

BackgroundAlthough multiple measures of the causes and consequences of chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) are available and can inform pain management, no quantitative summary of these measures can describe the meaning of pain for a patient. Th…