diseases/conditions/disorders including CFS in this study. Sleep
disturbances and headaches are part of most definitions for ME and
CFS. Although disorders such as depression and anxiety may be
co-morbid with fibromyalgia, CFS or any other organic disease, they
are not a symptom of any disease.
The Comparative Burden of Mild, Moderate and Severe Fibromyalgia:
Results from a Cross-Sectional Survey in the United States
Caroline Schaefer, Arthi Chandran, Meghan Hufstader, Rebecca Baik,
Michael McNett, Don Goldenberg, Robert Gerwin and Gergana Zlateva
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011, 9:71 doi:10.1186/1477-7525-9-71
Published: 22 August 2011
CO-MORBID CONDITIONS
Overall, subjects had a mean number of 4.2 comorbid conditions. While
not significant
(p=0.112), there was a trend toward an increasing number of comorbid
conditions as FM severity
worsened from 2.9 for mild FM subjects to 4.4 for severe FM subjects (Table 2).
Approximately half or more subjects had comorbid conditions of sleep
disturbance/insomnia (68%), depressive
symptoms (58%), headache/migraine (52%), or anxiety (50%) as reported
by the physicians on
the CRF (Table 3).
Depressive symptoms (p<0.001), anxiety (p=0.002), chronic fatigue
syndrome (p=0.003), and major depressive disorder (p=0.024) differed
significantly across FM
severity levels.
For these conditions, the proportion of subjects with the condition increased as
FM severity increased, except for chronic fatigue syndrome, which was
most frequently reported
among subjects with moderate FM.
---------------------------------------------
Send posts to CO-CURE@listserv.nodak.edu
Unsubscribe at http://www.co-cure.org/unsub.htm
Select list topic options at http://www.co-cure.org/topics.htm
---------------------------------------------
Co-Cure's purpose is to provide information from across the spectrum of
opinion concerning medical, research and political aspects of ME/CFS and/or
FMS. We take no position on the validity of any specific scientific or
political opinion expressed in Co-Cure posts, and we urge readers to
research the various opinions available before assuming any one
interpretation is definitive. The Co-Cure website <www.co-cure.org> has a
link to our complete archive of posts as well as articles of central
importance to the issues of our community.
---------------------------------------------
