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Migraine-Fibromyalgia Link Reported at CureTogether

October 6th, 2009 Alexandra Carmichael Posted in Research Findings | 2 Comments »

CureTogether Data Finds Link Between Self-Reported Migraine and Fibromyalgia
Patients at CureTogether (http://www.curetogether.com) who report migraine are 3.5x more likely to report having fibromyalgia than patients who don’t report migraine. This comes from an analysis of 512 patients – please see the chart, and details below.

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Details of the CureTogether Finding…

Among 270 people reporting migraine, 72 (27%) reported also having fibromyalgia, and the remaining 198 specifically reported not having fibromyalgia. Among 242 people reporting “no migraine”, 18 (7%) reported having fibromyalgia, and the remaining 224 people specifically reported not having fibromyalgia.

This 27% vs. 7% relative risk is statistically significant, with a 95% confidence interval of 2.2 – 5.9.

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CureTogether has been called “Yelp for health.” It is a collaboration of people from around the world volunteering to solve real problems in chronic conditions. Patients self-report and rate symptoms and treatments for over 360 conditions. The top conditions at CureTogether are depression, anxiety, migraine, back pain, and vulvodynia. More information is at http://www.curetogether.com.

Migraine-Fibromyalgia Research

The importance of this finding is that using only self-reported data, we have found an association between migraine and fibromyalgia that has previously been explored only in clinical studies such as:

1. 22% of female patients with migraine were found to also have fibromyalgia. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16556247

2. Migraine, fibromyalgia, depression and anxiety were found to form a “comorbidity constellation”. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17578536

3. Fibromyalgia is increasingly prevalent with increased headache frequency. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19170692


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2 Responses to “Migraine-Fibromyalgia Link Reported at CureTogether”

  1. Crowdsourcing is a Powerful Tool in the Health Care Sector « The Full Spectrum Blog Says:
    October 14th, 2009 at 7:57 am

    [...] CureTogether did an amazing presentation and has shown how crowdsourced data can mirror data from clinical studies.  They have shown two examples of this such as in the case of the relationship between infertility and asthma, and most recently, the relationship between migraine and fibromyalgia.   [...]

  2. spl1nt Says:
    October 14th, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    mm…interesting research

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