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Title: No clear link between weather and fibromyalgia
Post by: riky on June 16, 2013, 09:00:21 AM
No clear link between weather and fibromyalgia

By Kerry Grens NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite common complaints that the weather can aggravate fibromyalgia symptoms, a new study finds little consistency in the type of weather conditions linked to worsening of the mysterious pain syndrome. Furthermore, "the few significant associations that we found (between weather and fibromyalgia symptoms) were very small, too small to affect daily functioning," said Ercolie Bossema, a researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in an email to Reuters Health. ...

Source: No clear link between weather and fibromyalgia (http://news.yahoo.com/no-clear-between-weather-fibromyalgia-213011135.html)