Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2015 Fibromyalgia is a common illness characterized by chronic widespread pain, sleep problems (including unrefreshing sleep), physical exhaustion and cognitive difficulties. The definition, pathogenesis and treatment are controversial, and some even contest the existence of this disorder.
Gary W, Jay, Robert L, Barkin
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Prevalence of fibromyalgia in asthma and its impact on asthma control: a case-control study [PDF]
Annals of MedicineBackground Asthma and fibromyalgia are chronic conditions that significantly impair quality of life and share common inflammatory and neurophysiological mechanisms.Objective This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of fibromyalgia in asthma ...
Suat Konuk +3 more
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Distress as a mediator for pain and activities of daily living in older adults with fibromyalgia
Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 IntroductionPain, distress, and activities of daily living impact the lives of those with chronic pain. This study investigated distress (depressive symptoms, anxiety) on the relationship between pain (intensity and pain interference) and activities of ...
Caitlin Gower +9 more
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Three-Quarters of Persons in the US Population Reporting a Clinical Diagnosis of Fibromyalgia Do Not Satisfy Fibromyalgia Criteria: The 2012 National Health Interview Survey. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 OBJECTIVES:Although fibromyalgia criteria have been in effect for decades, little is known about how the fibromyalgia diagnosis is applied and understood by clinicians and patients.
Brian Walitt +3 more
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Ukrainian Scientific Medical Youth Journal, 2022 The literature review analyses and systematises currently available information on fibromyalgia etiology and pathogenesis, hypertension classification and causes, and considers possible relationships between cervical fibromyalgia and hypertension ...
Alla Kovaleva +2 more
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Fibromyalgia diagnosis and biased assessment: Sex, prevalence and bias. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 PURPOSE:Multiple clinical and epidemiological studies have provided estimates of fibromyalgia prevalence and sex ratio, but different criteria sets and methodology, as well as bias, have led to widely varying (0.4%->11%) estimates of prevalence and ...
Frederick Wolfe +4 more
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Galician Medical Journal, 2023 Aim. To evaluate whether eating behaviors of female patients with fibromyalgia syndrome differ from those of the healthy population, what factors affect these behaviors, and whether eating behaviors are effective on patients’ life quality and functional ...
Alper Mengi
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Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for Gallbladder Calculosis in Fibromyalgia Patients: Impact on Musculoskeletal Pain, Somatic Hyperalgesia and Central Sensitization. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Fibromyalgia, a chronic syndrome of diffuse musculoskeletal pain and somatic hyperalgesia from central sensitization, is very often comorbid with visceral pain conditions.
Raffaele Costantini +5 more
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Increased Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Patients with Primary Fibromyalgia and Those with Concomitant Comorbidity-A Taiwanese Population-Based Cohort Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Fibromyalgia has seldom been associated with coronary heart disease (CHD). The aim of this study was to evaluate the risk of CHD in patients with fibromyalgia.We used a dataset of one million participants, systemically scrambled from the Taiwanese ...
Chia-Hsien Su +6 more
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Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2023 Fibromyalgia is a common chronic pain condition. Rates of contact allergy in individuals with fibromyalgia have not been widely studied. Systemic contact allergy can present with muscle and joint pain and general malaise.
Katharine Hopkins +6 more
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