Suicidal ideation in female individuals with fibromyalgia and comorbid obesity: Prevalence and association with clinical, pain-related, and psychological factors

Objective: Individuals with fibromyalgia report alarming levels of suicidal ideation, and comorbidity with other chronic health conditions such as obesity – a risk factor for suicidal ideation per se- could further complicate the clinical picture. The aim of this study is to determine, in a sample of women with fibromyalgia and comorbid obesity, the prevalence of […]

Suicidal ideation in female individuals with fibromyalgia and comorbid obesity: Prevalence and association with clinical, pain-related, and psychological factors

Objective Individuals with fibromyalgia report alarming levels of suicidal ideation, and comorbidity with other chronic health conditions such as obesity—a risk factor for suicidal ideation per se—could further complicate the clinical picture. The aim of this study is to determine, in a sample of women with fibromyalgia and comorbid obesity, the prevalence of suicidal ideation […]

Outpatient engagement lowers predicted risk of suicide attempts in fibromyalgia

Objective Fibromyalgia (FM) patients are 10x more likely to die by suicide than the general population. The purpose of this study was to externally validate published models predicting suicidal ideation and attempts in FM and identify interpretable risk and protective factors for suicidality unique to FM. Methods This is a case‐control study of large‐scale EHR […]

Mortality in fibromyalgia: A study of 8,186 patients over thirty-five years.

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