U.S., Jan. 29 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT06795386) titled 'Chronic Widespread Pain After Rapid Weight Loss in Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic/Latino/a/x Adults' on Jan. 22.
Brief Summary: The goal of this observational study is to learn if surgical weight loss can improve chronic widespread pain in people living with higher BMI who self-identify as Hispanic/Latino ethnicity or non-Hispanic Black based on the United States census racial categories. The main questions the study aims to answer are:
1. Do pain at rest (primary outcome) and movement-evoked pain (secondary outcome) improve after bariatric surgery?
2. Do pain processing and joint function change after bariatric surgery?
3. Are ...