Fibromyalgia diagnosis and biased assessment: Sex, prevalence and bias.

PURPOSE:Multiple clinical and epidemiological studies have provided estimates of fibromyalgia prevalence and sex ratio, but different criteria sets and methodology, as well as bias, have led to widely varying (0.4%->11%) estimates of prevalence and female predominance (>90% to <61%). In gen...

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Main Authors: Frederick Wolfe, Brian Walitt, Serge Perrot, Johannes J Rasker, Winfried Häuser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6136749?pdf=render