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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, Jiunn-Horng Chen, Joung-Liang Lan, Yu-Chiao Wang, Chun-Hung Tseng, Chung-Yi Hsu, Lichi Huang   +6 more
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Increased Rates of Gold and Acrylate Allergy in Individuals with Fibromyalgia Tested with an Extended Dental Patch Test Series

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, Annarita Antelmi, Jakob Dahlin, Karin Olsson, Cecilia Svedman, Jacqueline Åstrand, Magnus Bruze   +6 more
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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman, Neehar Parikh, Dan J. Clauw, David A. Williams, Elliot B. Tapper   +4 more
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Patients With Fibromyalgia, Depression, and/or Anxiety and Sex Differences

American Journal of Men's Health, 2022
Fibromyalgia is a syndrome characterized by chronic widespread pain, with a multifactorial etiopathogenesis and high incidence of neuropsychiatric comorbidity. It has been inaccurately considered a pathological condition affecting only middle-aged women.
Marcela Henao-Pérez, D. C. López-Medina, A. Arboleda, Sara Bedoya Monsalve, Julián Andrés Zea   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Is fibromyalgia associated with a unique cytokine profile? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Rheumatology, 2021
Objectives The aetiology of primary chronic pain syndromes (CPS) is highly disputed. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis aiming to assess differences in circulating cytokine levels in patients with diffuse CPS (fibromyalgia) vs healthy ...
Luke Furtado O’Mahony, A. Srivastava, P. Mehta, Coziana Ciurtin   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Higher Risk for Sjögren’s Syndrome in Patients With Fibromyalgia: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
ObjectivesClinically, associations have been observed between Sjögren’s syndrome and fibromyalgia. Nonetheless, population-based evidence evaluating the risk of Sjögren’s syndrome in fibromyalgia patients is lacking.
Shuo-Yan Gau, Pui-Ying Leong, Pui-Ying Leong, Cheng-Li Lin, Cheng-Li Lin, Hsi-Kai Tsou, Hsi-Kai Tsou, Hsi-Kai Tsou, James Cheng-Chung Wei, James Cheng-Chung Wei, James Cheng-Chung Wei   +10 more
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Central Sensitization Syndrome and the Initial Evaluation of a Patient with Fibromyalgia: A Review

Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2015
In both primary care and consultative practices, patients presenting with fibromyalgia (FM) often have other medically unexplained somatic symptoms and are ultimately diagnosed as having central sensitization (CS).
Kevin C. Fleming, Mary M. Volcheck
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Association of Catechol-O-methyltransferase single nucleotide polymorphisms, ethnicity, and sex in a large cohort of fibromyalgia patients

BMC Rheumatology, 2018
Background Fibromyalgia (FM) is a complex, centralized pain condition that is often difficult to diagnose and treat. FM is considered to have a genetic background due to its familial aggregation and due to findings from multiple candidate-gene studies ...
Chee Lee, Ginevra Liptan, Svetlana Kantorovich, Maneesh Sharma, Ashley Brenton   +4 more
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Depression: A Modifiable Risk Factor for Poor Outcomes in Fibromyalgia

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2022
Background: About 4 out of 10 fibromyalgia patients suffer from depression. The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) guidelines recommend using antidepressants to treat fibromyalgia.
Bala Munipalli, Madeleine E. Allman, Mohit Chauhan, Shehzad K. Niazi, Fernando Rivera, Andy Abril, Benjamin Wang, Mikolaj A. Wieczorek, David O. Hodge, Dacre Knight, Adam Perlman, Abd Moain Abu Dabrh, Daniel Dudenkov, Barbara K. Bruce   +13 more
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Hypervigilance for innocuous tactile stimuli in patients with fibromyalgia: an experimental approach [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Hypervigilance, i.e., excessive attention, is often invoked as a potential explanation for the observation that many individuals with fibromyalgia show a heightened sensitivity to stimulation in various sensory modalities, such as touch and ...
Arendt-Nielsen, Chapman, Cohen, Crombez, Crombez, Eccleston, Eccleston, Field, Freynhagen, Gallace, Geisser, Geisser, Glass, Glass, Hollins, Kosek, Lautenbacher, Legrain, McCracken, McDermid, Meulders, Oaklander, Peters, Pollard, Roelofs, Roelofs, Rollman, Schmidt, Soer, Staud, Sullivan, Tait, Tiemann, Timmerman, Uceyler, Van Damme, Van Damme, Van Damme, Van Damme, Van Damme, Van Damme, Van Hulle, Van Hulle, Vanden Bulcke, Vangronsveld, Vlaeyen, Weinstein, Wolfe   +47 more
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