Patients with fibromyalgia rarely fulfil classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis
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Patients with fibromyalgia rarely fulfil classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis
Abstract
Background: The Assessments of Spondyloarthritis international Society (ASAS) classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) have been criticized because of insufficient differentiation towards FM. The aim of this study was to compare the performance of currently used classification criteria in patients diagnosed with axSpA or FM.
Methods: Patients were prospectively included if diagnosed with axSpA or FM by the treating rheumatologist and evaluated by an independent examiner for fulfilment of the classification criteria for axSpA (ASAS criteria) and/or FM (1990 ACR classification and 2010 ACR diagnostic criteria). Patients with axSpA were stratified based on classification as non-radiographic axSpA (nr-axSpA) or AS. Symptom severity was assessed by established disease-related questionnaires.
Results: Overall, 300 patients were included, 100 with FM and 200 with axSpA of which 100 each had nr-axSpA and AS. Almost all FM patients fulfilled the 2010 (100%) and 1990 ACR criteria (98%) for FM, but only 2% fulfilled the ASAS criteria. When calculations were based on only the FM patients with available HLA-B27 results (n = 40), the proportion fulfilling the ASAS criteria was 5%. All axSpA patients met the ASAS criteria but also the 2010 (24%) and 1990 (13.5%) FM criteria. More patients with AS (29% and 19%) than with nr-axSpA (19% and 8%) fulfilled the 2010 and 1990 FM criteria, respectively.
Conclusion: FM patients only rarely fulfil classification criteria for axSpA but some axSpA patients also fulfil FM criteria. Since this was more frequent in patients with AS it may be related to the severity and duration of chronic pain in axSpA patients. Assessment instruments evaluated in axSpA are not disease-specific. The phenomenon of central pain sensitization in rheumatic diseases deserves more study.
Comment in
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Fibromyalgia is not axial spondyloarthritis.Rheumatology (Oxford). 2018 Sep 1;57(9):1510-1512. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kex372. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2018. PMID: 29045716 No abstract available.
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