The role of gender in fibromyalgia syndrome

Yunus, Muhammad B.

doi:10.1007/s11926-001-0008-3

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“…Another study showed that husbands of women with FM had a high prevalence of FM . This is intriguing, because the prevalence of FM in men is substantially lower than in women (Yunus 2001;Yunus 2002) and, more importantly, because familial or environmental influences would be implicated in this association, rather than genetic ones.…”

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A twin study of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and chronic widespread pain

Arguelles

Afari

Buchwald

et al. 2006

Pain

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Previous studies of the association between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and chronic widespread pain (CWP) or fibromyalgia have not examined the role of familial or genetic factors. The goals of this study were to determine if symptoms of PTSD are related to CWP in a genetically informative community-based sample of twin pairs, and if so, to ascertain if the association is due to familial or genetic factors. Data were obtained from the University of Washington Twin Registry, which contains 1,042 monozygotic and 828 dizygotic twin pairs. To assess the symptoms of PTSD, we used questions from the Impact of Events Scale (IES). IES scores were partitioned into terciles. CWP was defined as pain located in 3 body regions lasting at least 1 week during the past 3 months. Random effects regression models, adjusted for demographic features and depression, examined the relationship between IES and CWP. IES scores were strongly associated with CWP (P < 0.0001). Compared to those in the lowest IES tercile, twins in the highest tercile were 3.2 times more likely to report CWP. Although IES scores were associated with CWP more strongly among dizygotic than among monozygotic twins, this difference was not significant. Our findings suggest that PTSD symptoms, as measured by IES, are strongly linked to CWP, but this association is not explained by a common familial or genetic vulnerability to both conditions. Future research is needed to understand the temporal association of PTSD and CWP, as well as the physiological underpinnings of this relationship.

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A twin study of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and chronic widespread pain

Arguelles

Afari

Buchwald

et al. 2006

Pain

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“…Another study showed that husbands of women with FM had a high prevalence of FM . This is intriguing, because the prevalence of FM in men is substantially lower than in women (Yunus, 2001 and, more importantly, because familial or environmental influences would be implicated in this association, rather than genetic ones.…”

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Mechanisms in Chronic Multisymptom Illnesses

Clauw¹

2008

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“…COMUNICAÇÃO SAÚDE EDUCAÇÃO 2016; 20(56): [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] También en este caso observamos que la referencia a la psicología se hace sin distinguir o definir las áreas de implicancia, corriente teórica o la especialidad a la que se refiere, a diferencia de lo que sucede con respecto a las disciplinas biomédicas.…”

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“…Las cuestiones referidas al género han sido tenido en cuenta por algunos autores 34 , quienes explican a partir de factores biológicos -mutaciones genéticas, alteraciones en mecanismos sensoriales, psicológicos -que las mujeres reportan más distrés psicológico que los hombres -y socioculturales -estereotipos de los roles. Sin embargo, otros trabajos 35 plantearon que estas diferencias pueden deberse a sesgos de los profesionales que diagnostican, lo cual cuestionaría -y plantearía la necesidad de revisar -estas diferencias en la prevalencia.…”

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Análisis temático sobre la fibromialgia en la prensa escrita Argentina: descripciones generales y el rol de la psicología

Sarudiansky

2015

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Desde su conceptualización en 1990, la Fibromialgia (FM) ha sido discutida en términos de su validez como diagnóstico, su definición como enfermedad y sus tratamientos. Estas cuestiones han sido abordadas por diferentes disciplinas biomédicas y sociales, entre las cuales se incluyen la psicología, la psiquiatría, la antropología y la sociología. En este trabajo, indagaremos cómo se difunden los saberes respecto de la FM en Argentina, a través de un análisis temático de los artículos referentes a este síndrome publicados en la prensa escrita. Analizaremos la manera en que las notas periodísticas describen a la FM – características generales, hipótesis causales, y tratamientos – y reflexionaremos respecto de cómo estos medios abordan el rol de la psicología en el tratamiento de esta dolencia.

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The role of gender in fibromyalgia syndrome

Cited by 136 publications

References 44 publications

A twin study of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and chronic widespread pain

A twin study of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and chronic widespread pain

Mechanisms in Chronic Multisymptom Illnesses

Análisis temático sobre la fibromialgia en la prensa escrita Argentina: descripciones generales y el rol de la psicología

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