Mayo Clinic Associate Professor, Terry H. Oh, M.D., talks about her fibromyalgia research findings in the Fibromyalgia Treatment Program, including symptom severity and quality of life, such as obesity, alcohol consumption and age, in patients with fibromyalgia.
With a database of more than 1,000 fibro patients, she shares some of the findings from the database in this video.
SOME OF THE TRANSCRIPT: Fibromyalgia is a symptom complex characterized by chronic widespread pain and a constellation of symptoms such as fatigue, poor sleep, and cognitive symptoms. It affects about 2% of the population and is more common in women. Fibromyalgia is a chronic disorder, and the condition negatively affects the quality of life and can have a devastating effect on people's lives.
The Mayo Clinic has a comprehensive fibromyalgia treatment program, which was established in 1999.
Our dedicated team members include nurses, therapists, wellness coaches, nurse practitioners, and physicians...
Our program focuses on cognitive-behavioral therapies. We wanted to see how our patients do after undergoing the program. The majority of our patients reported improvement in their symptoms and quality of life after undergoing the program. However, we noted that some did not improve. Therefore, we analyzed the factors associated with treatment outcomes. Our study showed that those who had a greater benefit were younger, had more years of education, had higher baseline depression score on the fibromyalgia impact questionnaire,
a lower number of tender points, and did not have an abuse history.
We looked into factors associated with symptoms and quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia.
So we looked into BMI status, and we noticed that obesity was more common in our patients than the general population.
Close to 50% of our patients were obese, and furthermore, those obese, about half of them were severely obese. Then we examined the association between BMI and their symptom severity and quality of life.
Our study found that those obese had worse fibromyalgia symptoms and worse quality of life compared to those non-obese and overweight.
Thank you Kitty for helping to spread awareness about fibromyalgia
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ReplyDeleteNice post....Thank u for sharing this post. Fibromyalgia (FM or FMS) is characterised by chronic widespread pain and allodynia (a heightened and painful response to pressure).
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