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Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) or bipolar disorder frequently report chronic pain at multiple sites, research shows.

Study author Barbara Nicholl (University of Glasgow, UK) and team say that their data “highlight the importance of an adequate assessment of the nature and extent of pain in patients with [bipolar disorder] or MDD.”

Chronic pain at a single site was not more common in patients with mood disorders, with around 23% of the 149,611 people in the study reporting this. But the frequency of pain at two to three sites rose from 13.2% of the 116,184 people without a mood disorder, to 19.8% of the 31,814 people with MDD and 22.6% of the 1613 people with bipolar disorder.

Read the full report here.