Fibromyalgia diagnosis and biased assessment: Sex, prevalence and bias

Frederick Wolfe, Brian Walitt, Serge Perrot, Johannes J Rasker and Winfried Häuser

PLOS ONE, 2018, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-14

Abstract: Purpose: Multiple clinical and epidemiological studies have provided estimates of fibromyalgia prevalence and sex ratio, but different criteria sets and methodology, as well as bias, have led to widely varying (0.4%->11%) estimates of prevalence and female predominance (>90% to

Date: 2018
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