Publications by authors named "Daniel A Kusko"
Neighborhood Disadvantage and Knee Osteoarthritis Pain: Do Sleep and Catastrophizing Play a Role?
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken)
January 2025
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to explore how neighborhood disadvantage influences pain severity in individuals with knee pain related to Osteoarthritis, particularly focusing on the factors involved.
- Researchers analyzed data from 140 non-Hispanic White and Black adults and looked at connections between neighborhood disadvantage, sleep efficiency, pain catastrophizing, and pain severity using various assessment tools.
- Findings indicated that living in a disadvantaged neighborhood led to poorer sleep quality, which in turn increased pain severity; however, pain catastrophizing did not mediate this relationship, suggesting that improving sleep might be an effective intervention target.
Objectives: Insomnia and chronic pain are common symptoms in people with HIV. Poor sleep has been associated with chronic pain. While cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia improves insomnia in clinical populations, there are barriers to people with HIV accessing treatment including the lack of trained providers and lengthy sessions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The concordance between radiograph-derived Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) scores for knee osteoarthritis (KOA) and experimental and clinical pain and KOA-related physical function is conflicting.
Objectives: We investigate whether the inclusion of dispositional traits reduces variability between KOA radiographic findings, experimental pain, clinical pain, and function in individuals with knee pain.
Design: This study is a cross-sectional, secondary analysis of data collected from the UPLOAD-II study.
Introduction: Previous research indicates ethnic/race group differences in pain and neurodegenerative diseases. Accounting for socioenvironmental factors reduces ethnic/race group differences in clinical and experimental pain. In the current study sample, we previously reported that in individuals with knee pain, ethnic/race group differences were observed in bilateral temporal lobe thickness, areas of the brain associated with risk for Alzheimer's disease, and related dementias.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Narrative Review of the Effects of Mindfulness on Sleep and Hypertension.
Curr Hypertens Rep
February 2024
Purpose Of Review: The prevalence of both insomnia and hypertension in the general population is vast and the health implications to individuals and society are costly. The current pharmacological treatment options for insomnia and hypertension are limited and patients are becoming increasingly interested in non-pharmacological treatment options. Mindfulness, a disciplined mental training practice rooted in Eastern traditions, has become a widely popular treatment method for multiple chronic health problems.
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- Dispositional traits can either shield individuals or make them more susceptible to chronic pain, influencing their experiences over time.
- The study examined 168 people aged 45 to 85 with knee pain, finding that their traits were linked to psychosocial factors and pain levels at the beginning and two years later.
- Results showed that while these traits can change (by 30-50%), they don’t completely dictate pain experiences, indicating potential for modification and intervention.
Background: Pain is the hallmark symptom of knee osteoarthritis (OA), and varies widely across individuals. Previous research has demonstrated both fluctuating and stable pain trajectories in knee OA using various time periods. Changes in pain assessed quarterly (i.
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