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Table 3 Fibromyalgia symptoms

From: General symptom reporting in female fibromyalgia patients and referents: a population-based case-referent study

 

Cases

Referents

OR

95%CI

p

Constantly exhausted, %

89.0

34.7

10.67

5.78-19.69

< 0.0001

Whole body fatigue, %

91.9

36.9

16.31

7.84-33.93

< 0.0001

Only muscular fatigue, %

46.3

15.6

4.10

2.62-6.43

< 0.0001

Tender points, %

95.6

40.2

26.63

11.37-62.38

< 0.0001

Sense of stiffness, %

95.6

42.0

25.23

10.75-59.20

< 0.0001

Sense of bloating, %

72.1

22.1

6.30

3.81-10.43

< 0.0001

Numbness, pins and needles, %

77.2

26.4

5.48

3.27-9.19

< 0.0001

Wakes up not thoroughly rested, %

86.0

45.2

6.95

4.10-11.78

< 0.0001

Deteriorated short-term memory, %

73.5

28.9

4.66

2.86-7.59

< 0.0001

Daily pain, dull aching, %

94.9

24.4

31.33

13.82-71.03

< 0.0001

Pain at rest, %

94.9

27.9

26.26

11.61-59.40

< 0.0001

Awakened because of pain, %

83.8

19.4

13.15

7.47-23.13

< 0.0001

  1. Prevalence of fibromyalgia symptoms among cases and referents. OR = odds ratios adjusted for the influence of age, body mass index, education, occupational and immigrant status, 95%CI = 95% confidence intervals.