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14 paź 2022 · Fibromyalgia mainly affects women, but men with the condition are significantly more likely to have more additional medical conditions, known as comorbidities, according to a new study led by the National Centre for Population Health & Wellbeing Research.
19 lut 2020 · It is possible that there are differences in clinical manifestations between men and women with fibromyalgia syndrome (FM), especially in autonomic dysfunction; we assessed the interaction...
Fibromyalgia mainly affects women (80–90% of cases), but some contradictory studies have shown lower estimates (59% of cases affecting women). Psychosocial impacts of fibromyalgia are similar in men and women, but men delay seeking medical help.
Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), characterized by widespread pain and tenderness on palpation (tender points), is much more common in women than in men in a proportion of 9:1. Two recent studies have shown important gender differences in various clinical characteristics of FMS.
In a gender comparison of patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia, the most notable sociodemographic finding was that women diagnosed with fibromyalgia were nearly 9 years younger than their male counterparts (48.5 vs. 57.4 years, respectively), with 52.3% below the age of 49.
Women had slightly more symptoms than men, including generalized pain (36.8% vs. 32.4%), count of 37 symptoms (4.7 vs. 3.7) and mean polysymptomatic distress scores (10.2 vs. 8.2). We also found a linear relation between the probability of being females and fibromyalgia and fibromyalgia severity.
The prevalence of fibromyalgia (FM) in males is much lower than in women. Thus, current knowledge about the syndrome has been developed from research with women. The aim of the present study is to analyze whether FM manifestations differ as a function of sex.
