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A Cross-Sectional Study of Fibromyalgia and Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS): Could There Be a Relationship?
Background Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS) is a syndrome characterized by a wide spectrum of symptoms emerging after clearance of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) infection. These symptoms include fatigue, myalgia, arthralgia, cognitive dysfunction, and many other psychiatric symptoms. Given that fib...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10462402/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37644924 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.42663 |
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author | Akel, Alaa Almanasyeh, Bilal Abo Kobaa, Abdulrahman Aljabali, Ahmed Al-Abadleh, Ahmed Alkhalaileh, Asem Alwardat, Abdel Rahman Sarhan, Mohammed Y Abu-Jeyyab, Mohammad |
author_facet | Akel, Alaa Almanasyeh, Bilal Abo Kobaa, Abdulrahman Aljabali, Ahmed Al-Abadleh, Ahmed Alkhalaileh, Asem Alwardat, Abdel Rahman Sarhan, Mohammed Y Abu-Jeyyab, Mohammad |
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description | Background Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS) is a syndrome characterized by a wide spectrum of symptoms emerging after clearance of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) infection. These symptoms include fatigue, myalgia, arthralgia, cognitive dysfunction, and many other psychiatric symptoms. Given that fibromyalgia patients have similar symptoms, we conducted a web-based cross-sectional study to investigate the prevalence and predictors of fibromyalgia patients who recovered from COVID-19. Methods Data were collected between the 9th and 19th of March 2022 using a web-based survey. The questionnaire consisted of 25 questions gathering sociodemographic information, comorbid diseases and features of acute COVID-19 infection. Lastly, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) survey criteria completed the questionnaire. Results A final sample of 404 individuals (75% women) filled out the form. Of these, 80 (19.8%) satisfied the ACR survey criteria for fibromyalgia (93.8% women). A multivariate logistic regression model including demographic and clinical factors showed that female gender (OR: 6.557, 95% CI: 2.376 - 18.093, p = 0.001) and dyspnea (OR: 1.980, 95% CI: 1.146 - 3.420, p = 0.014) were the strongest predictors of being classified as having post-COVID-19 fibromyalgia. Bivariate correlation revealed that age (r = 0.200, p = 0.001) and duration of COVID-19 infection (r = 0.121, p = 0.015) were directly correlated with fibromyalgia symptom (FS) score. Conclusion Our data suggest that clinical features of fibromyalgia are common in patients who recovered from COVID-19 and that dyspnea and female gender increase the risk of developing post-COVID-19 fibromyalgia. |
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spelling | pubmed-104624022023-08-29 A Cross-Sectional Study of Fibromyalgia and Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS): Could There Be a Relationship? Akel, Alaa Almanasyeh, Bilal Abo Kobaa, Abdulrahman Aljabali, Ahmed Al-Abadleh, Ahmed Alkhalaileh, Asem Alwardat, Abdel Rahman Sarhan, Mohammed Y Abu-Jeyyab, Mohammad Cureus Internal Medicine Background Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS) is a syndrome characterized by a wide spectrum of symptoms emerging after clearance of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) infection. These symptoms include fatigue, myalgia, arthralgia, cognitive dysfunction, and many other psychiatric symptoms. Given that fibromyalgia patients have similar symptoms, we conducted a web-based cross-sectional study to investigate the prevalence and predictors of fibromyalgia patients who recovered from COVID-19. Methods Data were collected between the 9th and 19th of March 2022 using a web-based survey. The questionnaire consisted of 25 questions gathering sociodemographic information, comorbid diseases and features of acute COVID-19 infection. Lastly, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) survey criteria completed the questionnaire. Results A final sample of 404 individuals (75% women) filled out the form. Of these, 80 (19.8%) satisfied the ACR survey criteria for fibromyalgia (93.8% women). A multivariate logistic regression model including demographic and clinical factors showed that female gender (OR: 6.557, 95% CI: 2.376 - 18.093, p = 0.001) and dyspnea (OR: 1.980, 95% CI: 1.146 - 3.420, p = 0.014) were the strongest predictors of being classified as having post-COVID-19 fibromyalgia. Bivariate correlation revealed that age (r = 0.200, p = 0.001) and duration of COVID-19 infection (r = 0.121, p = 0.015) were directly correlated with fibromyalgia symptom (FS) score. Conclusion Our data suggest that clinical features of fibromyalgia are common in patients who recovered from COVID-19 and that dyspnea and female gender increase the risk of developing post-COVID-19 fibromyalgia. Cureus 2023-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10462402/ /pubmed/37644924 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.42663 Text en Copyright © 2023, Akel et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Akel, Alaa Almanasyeh, Bilal Abo Kobaa, Abdulrahman Aljabali, Ahmed Al-Abadleh, Ahmed Alkhalaileh, Asem Alwardat, Abdel Rahman Sarhan, Mohammed Y Abu-Jeyyab, Mohammad A Cross-Sectional Study of Fibromyalgia and Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS): Could There Be a Relationship? |
title | A Cross-Sectional Study of Fibromyalgia and Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS): Could There Be a Relationship? |
title_full | A Cross-Sectional Study of Fibromyalgia and Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS): Could There Be a Relationship? |
title_fullStr | A Cross-Sectional Study of Fibromyalgia and Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS): Could There Be a Relationship? |
title_full_unstemmed | A Cross-Sectional Study of Fibromyalgia and Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS): Could There Be a Relationship? |
title_short | A Cross-Sectional Study of Fibromyalgia and Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS): Could There Be a Relationship? |
title_sort | cross-sectional study of fibromyalgia and post-acute covid-19 syndrome (pacs): could there be a relationship? |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10462402/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37644924 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.42663 |
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