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Primary fibromyalgia (fibrositis): Clinical study of 50 patients with matched normal controls
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It is shown that primary fibromyalgia is a poorly recognized condition and should be suspected by the presence of its own characteristic features, and not diagnosed just by the absence of other recognizable conditions.About:
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The American College of Rheumatology 1990 Criteria for the Classification of Fibromyalgia. Report of the Multicenter Criteria Committee.
Frederick Wolfe,Hugh A. Smythe,Muhammad B. Yunus,Robert M. Bennett,Claire Bombardier,Don L. Goldenberg,Peter Tugwell,Stephen M. Campbell,Micha Abeles,Patricia Clark,Adel G. Fam,Stephen J. Farber,Justus J. Fiechtner,C. Michael Franklin,Robert A. Gatter,Daniel Hamaty,James A. Lessard,Alan S. Lichtbroun,Alfonse T. Masi,Glenn A. McCain,W. John Reynolds,Thomas J. Romano,I. Jon Russell,Robert P. Sheon +23 more
TL;DR: Criteria for the classification of fibromyalgia are widespread pain in combination with 2) tenderness at 11 or more of the 18 specific tender point sites, and no exclusions are made for the presence of concomitant radiographic or laboratory abnormalities.
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The American College of Rheumatology preliminary diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia and measurement of symptom severity.
Frederick Wolfe,Daniel J. Clauw,Mary Ann Fitzcharles,Don L. Goldenberg,Robert S. Katz,Philip J. Mease,Anthony S. Russell,I. Jon Russell,John B. Winfield,Muhammad B. Yunus +9 more
TL;DR: To develop simple, practical criteria for clinical diagnosis of fibromyalgia that are suitable for use in primary and specialty care and that do not require a tender point examination, and to provide a severity scale for characteristic fibromyalgic symptoms.
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Estimates of the prevalence of arthritis and selected musculoskeletal disorders in the United States
Reva C. Lawrence,Charles G. Helmick,Frank C. Arnett,Richard A. Deyo,David T. Felson,Edward H. Giannini,Stephen P. Heyse,Rosemarie Hirsch,Marc C. Hochberg,Gene G. Hunder,Matthew H. Liang,Stanley R. Pillemer,Virginia D. Steen,Frederick Wolfe +13 more
TL;DR: Given the limitations of the data on which they are based, this report provides the best available prevalence estimates for arthritis and other rheumatic conditions overall, and for selected musculoskeletal disorders, in the US population.
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The prevalence and characteristics of fibromyalgia in the general population
TL;DR: Characteristic features of fibromyalgia--pain threshold and symptoms--are similar in community and clinic populations, but overall severity, pain, and functional disability are more severe in the clinic population.
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Fibromyalgia criteria and severity scales for clinical and epidemiological studies: a modification of the ACR Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia
Frederick Wolfe,Daniel J. Clauw,Mary Ann Fitzcharles,Don L. Goldenberg,Winfried Häuser,Robert S. Katz,Philip J. Mease,Anthony S. Russell,I. Jon Russell,John B. Winfield +9 more
TL;DR: A fibromyalgia survey questionnaire is developed using a modification of the 2010 American College of Rheumatology Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia (ACR 2010) to allow their use in epidemiologic and clinical studies without the requirement for an examiner.
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