Voorbeelden van fibromyalgia

• Additionally, the diagnosis of fibromyalgia is easily accepted by the patients, and is less stigmatizing than psychiatric diagnoses.

• Prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder in fibromyalgia patients : overlapping syndromes or a posttraumatic fibromyalgia syndrome ?

• Latent class analysis of symptoms associated with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.

• If our interpretation of our results is correct, what are the implications for understanding the clinical heterogeneity of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia ?

• These results were unexpected given the usual assumption of the distinctiveness of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.

• Only well-defined and recognized somatic diseases, but not medically unexplained syndromes such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel or chronic fatigue syndrome, were considered sufficient somatic explanation.

• Also, the relationship of such fashionable diagnoses as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, etc., and somatoform disorders remain unclear.

• Victimization in chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia in tertiary care : a controlled study on prevalence and characteristics.

• Four of the patients had received a diagnosis of fibromyalgia earlier.

• In this paper, we describe the application of latent class analysis to a large set of symptoms associated with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.

• A consequence of these limitations is that these results suggest - but do not prove - the lack of distinctiveness between chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.

• However, in light of these limitations, these results support a conceptualization of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia as being characterized by greater similarities than differences.

• Our aims were to investigate empirically symptomatic heterogeneity in chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.

• They also induced a transient syndrome similar to fibromyalgia by depriving healthy subjects of this stage of sleep.

• Relatively little progress has been made in delineating the nature and extent of heterogeneity for both chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.