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Breast implants are not related to the development of fibromyalgia.
2004 MAY 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Review of studies cannot find a link between breast implants and the development of fibromyalgia, researchers report.
According to recent research published in the journal Annals of Plastic Surgery, "Although the collective epidemiologic literature does not support an association between silicone breast implants and any well-defined or atypical connective tissue disease, a recent study raised concern regarding an increased risk for fibromyalgia among women with extracapsular ruptured implants."
"In this review, we examine the results of six epidemiologic studies which have evaluated the occurrence of fibromyalgia among women with breast implants. Two large nationwide follow-up studies of women with breast implants in Sweden and Denmark reported relative risks for fibromyalgia of 1.0 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.3 to 3.0) and for unspecified rheumatism (including fibromyalgia and myalgia) of 1.2 (95% CI 0.9 to 1.5), respectively," wrote L. Lipworth and colleagues, International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville.
Similarly, both a case-control and a cross-sectional study conducted within rheumatic disease clinics reported no association between silicone breast implants and the subsequent development of fibromyalgia. The single positive finding, that of a greater than two-fold excess of self-reported fibromyalgia among women with magnetic resonance imaging-diagnosed ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Breast implants are not related to the development of fibromyalgia.