Evaluating Gender Differences in Egyptian Fibromyalgia Patients Using the 1990, 2011, and 2016 ACR Criteria.

Abdel Hafeez MoshrifMohamed Z ShoaeirAwad Saad AbbasTarek M Abdel-Aziz Wesam Gouda

Published in: Open access rheumatology : research and reviews (2022)

Female patients with FM had greater disease severity scores, symptomatology, and number of tender points. Whatever the criteria applied, the prevalence and intensity of the disease features are higher in females, which may underestimate the disease in male patients.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
risk factors
high intensity