Menopausal transition symptoms in midlife women living with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue

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• Personal Author:
  Buntin M ; Kogan J ; Shaver J ; Wang E ; Wilbur J
• Description:
  We aimed to determine how menopausal transition symptoms cluster across 216 midlife women with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndromes (FMS/CFS), or both and subsequently to compare symptom factor severity scores by menopausal status among these women and compare symptom reporting with prior community-based samples of women without obvious illness. We designed a cross-sectional telephone survey of 216 women aged 35 to 55, diagnosed with FMS/CFS, symptomatic in the prior 6 months, and without hysterectomy. Thirty-six of 61 symptoms loaded on five factors: aroused/anxious mood, depressed mood/withdrawal, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal (GI), and vasomotor. Peri- and postmenopausal women had higher symptom severity scores for musculoskeletal, GI, and vasomotor factors but not mood factors. Symptoms for the women we studied who had FMS/CFS clustered similar to those in previous community-based samples of midlife women without major illness; however, the number of women experiencing symptoms was much higher among our sample. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aging Epidemiology Fatigue Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Women
• Keywords:
  Age-groups Fatigue-properties Humans Musculoskeletal-system Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Questionnaires Vasomotor-system Vasomotor-system-disorders
• ISSN:
  0739-9332
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039663
• Citation:
  Health Care Women Int 2006 Aug; 27(7):600-614
• Contact Point Address:
  JoEllen Wilbur, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 S. Damen Ave., Room 606, Chicago, IL 60612
• Email:
  jwilbur@uic.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Health Care for Women International
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4e3f0987b7fa89d357a646c6c78144e9698f522ae8d9edb0a8b62fa36ee9f1b23e475f0b0ed4f3e91dba54dd7f3da78f17b337508c7b114b8d686e5153a6e46a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192827/cdc_192827_DS1.pdf
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