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