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Do women with fibromyalgia present higher cardiovascular disease risk profile than healthy women? The al-Ándalus project


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  1. Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Spain. acostapedro23@ugr.es
  2. Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada; and Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Cádiz, Spain.
  3. Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Spain; and Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
  4. Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Spain.
  5. Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada; and SPORT Research Group (CTS-1024), Department of Education, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Almeria, Spain.
  6. Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Spain.
  7. Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Spain.
  8. Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Spain.
  9. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Sport Sciences, and Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Granada, Spain.

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2017 Vol.35, N°3 ,Suppl.105
PI 0061, PF 0067
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PMID: 28406763 [PubMed]

Received: 30/12/2016
Accepted : 13/03/2017
In Press: 05/04/2017
Published: 29/06/2017

Abstract

OBJECTIVES:
To analyse the cardiovascular disease risk profile of women with fibromyalgia and compare it with control women; and to test whether physical activity is associated with the cardiovascular disease risk profile in this population.
METHODS:
This cross-sectional study comprised 436 women with fibromyalgia (51.4±7.5 years old) and 217 controls (48.4±9.6 years old) from Andalusia, Spain. Clinical data, waist circumference, body fat percentage, resting heart rate, blood pressure and cardiorespiratory fitness were assessed. Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity was objectively assessed with accelerometry. A clustering of individual cardiovascular disease risk factors was represented by the number of cigarettes/day, adiposity, mean arterial pressure, resting heart rate and cardiorespiratory fitness.
RESULTS:
Women with fibromyalgia presented higher waist circumference and body fat percentage, greater number of cigarettes/day consumption and lower levels of cardiorespiratory fitness after controlling for age, marital status, educational level, occupational status, medication for cholesterol and monthly regular menstruation (all, p<.05). Women with fibromyalgia showed higher clustered cardiovascular disease risk than control women after controlling for the potential confounders described above (p<.001). Women with fibromyalgia who did not meet moderate-to-vigorous physical activity recommendations showed increased clustered cardiovascular disease risk after adjusting for the potential confounders described above (p<.001).
CONCLUSIONS:
Women with fibromyalgia may present higher risk of cardiovascular disease than controls. Inadequate levels of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity may play a significant role as an additional predisposing factor for cardiovascular disease risk in this population.

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