Healio (7/7, Laday) reports, “Patients with fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis [OA] or rheumatoid arthritis [RA] are at an increased risk for self-harm, compared with those without these diseases,” investigators concluded after identifying “10,484 adults with ankylosing spondylitis, 17,546 with fibromyalgia, 410,384 with OA and 23,205 with RA,” then matching these cases “to an unexposed cohort of the same size for each condition.” The findings were published online in Arthritis Care & Research.
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— “Patients with fibromyalgia, OA, RA at increased risk for self-harm, “Jason Laday, Healio, July 7, 2020