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Article: Is Trauma A Risk Factor For Fibromyalgia?(Brief Article)
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- December 10, 2001
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2001 DEC 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michelle Marble, senior medical writer - Epidemiological studies have found that trauma, physical and/or psychological, precede some cases of fibromyalgia. The question is whether or not this trauma may be a causative factor.
Dr. Robert Bennett, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, addressed this question at the 65th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, held November 10-15, 2001, in San Francisco, California.
The overall prevalence of fibromyalgia in women is 4%. It is associated with other autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus ...