Insulin Resistance Measured With Surrogate Marker HbA1c Strongly Associated With Fibromyalgia,

reported, “Insulin resistance measured with the surrogate marker hemoglobin (Hb)A1c was strongly associated with fibromyalgia,” researchers concluded. In the study involving “23 patients with fibromyalgia, levels of HbA1c were significantly higher than in two independent groups of controls, being 0.59 units higher than for participants in the Framingham Offspring Study (P<0.001), and 0.39 units higher than for individuals in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) dataset (P=0.0002),” investigators concluded. The findings were published online in PLoS One. https://www.medpagetoday.com/rheumatology/fibromyalgia/79763