Background: SARS-CoV2 has caused over two million deaths globally. The relationship between rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease (RMDs), immunosuppressive medications COVID-19 is unclear. Objectives: This study explores the rates of symptoms positive tests, DMARD adherence attitudes to virtual clinics. amongst RMD patients. Methods: An online population survey was disseminated via Arthritis Ir...

BACKGROUND Functional symptoms and disorders are common in primary care. Bodily distress syndrome (BDS) is a newly proposed clinical diagnosis for functional disorders. The BDS diagnosis is based on empirical research, and the symptoms stated in the BDS criteria have been translated into a self-report questionnaire called the BDS checklist. The aim of the present study was to investigate the ps...

INTRODUCTION Psychogenic dysphonia is a functional disorder with variable clinical manifestations. OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical and vocal characteristics of patients with psychogenic dysphonia in a case series. METHODS The study included 28 adult patients with psychogenic dysphonia, evaluated at a University hospital in the last ten years. Assessed variables included gender, age, occupa...

The aim of the study was to determine the ageand gender-specific prevalence, at symptom level and cluster level, of somatic symptoms in a sample of 1512 participants (52.7% females) aged 10 to 25 years old. Somatic complaints were measured with the Psychosomatic Symptoms Scale (PSS), a 35-item scale that inquires about 35 somatic symptoms and sensations in the last 3 months. PSS shows acceptabl...

BACKGROUND Many patients have complex health complaints they attribute to dental amalgam. There is some evidence of symptom relief after removal of amalgam. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to assess the total symptom load in patients with all their amalgam fillings removed, and to investigate the self-reported improvement of health with regard to precautions taken under amalgam removal ...

BACKGROUND Infectious mononucleosis (IM) commonly triggers a protracted postinfective fatigue syndrome (PIFS) of unknown pathogenesis. METHODS Seven subjects with PIFS with 6 or more months of disabling symptoms and 8 matched control subjects who had recovered promptly from documented IM were studied. The expression of 30,000 genes was examined in the peripheral blood by microarray analysis i...

OBJECTIVES Across diverse groups of Gulf War (GW) veterans, reports of musculoskeletal pain, cognitive dysfunction, unexplained fatigue, chronic diarrhoea, rashes and respiratory problems are common. GW illness is a condition resulting from GW service in veterans who report a combination of these symptoms. This study integrated the GW literature using meta-analytical methods to characterise the...

objective: medically unexplained symptoms are physical symptoms, which cannot be explained by organic ‎causes. this study aimed to investigate mental health in patients with medically unexplained ‎physical symptoms. ‎ method: one hundred outpatients who were admitted to the electro diagnosis clinic of imam khomeini ‎hospital, ahvaz/iran, participated in this study. data were collected using phy...