We determined rates and predictors of future development of fibromyalgia in patients with
rheumatoid arthritis (RA). After excluding patients with fibromyalgia and those with high levels …

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is characterized by various
disabling symptoms including exercise intolerance and is diagnosed in the absence of a …

Objective Farming and agricultural pesticide use has been associated with 2 autoimmune
rheumatic diseases, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). …

… Wright and colleagues previously published that the “other/do not know” group serves as
the proxy for OA 23 , and Walitt and colleagues found that the combination of self-report and …

Purpose To describe and evaluate somatic symptoms in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
and fibromyalgia, determine the relation between somatization syndromes and …

Objective. The polysymptomatic distress (PSD) scale is derived from variables used in the
2010 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) fibromyalgia (FM) criteria modified for survey …

Objective To evaluate the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality
over the course of 10 years among the more than 160,000 postmenopausal women in the …

Despite weak to nonexistent evidence regarding the causal association of trauma and
fibromyalgia (FM), literature and court testimony continue to point out the association as if it were a …

… BT Walitt, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine; A. Weinstein, MD, Professor of …
Walitt, Washington Hospital Center, 110 Irving Street, Washington, DC 20010. E-mail: Brian.t.walitt…

Objective Fibromyalgia (FM) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can cause consternation because
symptoms are seen to be out of proportion to physician and laboratory assessments, and …