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Study Reveals Subgroups of Fibromyalgia Patients - Not All Experience Psychological Distress

Posted on October 06, 2008

In an article entitled Fibromyalgia subgroups: profiling distinct subgroups using the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire, researchers at the Universit de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada, describe the results of their investigation of whether there are multiple types of fibromyalgia. Published in Rheumatology International [2008 Sep 27], the article describes the goal of the research study as identifying fibromyalgia subgroups using a simple and frequently used clinical tool, the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ). A total of 61 women diagnosed with [fibromyalgia] participated in this stud...

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