Trial reportPloS one2019
Blame it on the weather? The association between pain in fibromyalgia, relative humidity, temperature and barometric pressure.
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- The Dis-Engaged Patient? Chronic Interfacing in a Regime of Digital Health Convenience.Sociology of health & illness · 2026Article
- Effects of meteorological variability on the burden of musculoskeletal disorders among people aged 55 and above in the United States: a secondary analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Meteorological Factors in Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Retrospective Study.Cureus · 2025Article
- The effects of lowering barometric pressure on pain behavior and the stress hormone in mice with neuropathic pain.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Association Between Chronic Pain and Fatigue Severity with Weather and Air Pollution Among Females with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Whether Weather Matters with Migraine.Current pain and headache reports · 2024Review
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- Factors Contributing to the Link between Physical Well-Being and Chronic Pain in Young People from Galicia, Northwest Spain.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Behavioral and Electrocortical Response to a Sensorimotor Conflict in Individuals with Fibromyalgia.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Intrafasciomembranal Fluid Pressure: A Novel Approach to the Etiology of Myalgias, Part II.Cureus · 2023Review
- Measuring pain and nociception: Through the glasses of a computational scientist. Transdisciplinary overview of methods.Frontiers in network physiology · 2023Review
- Assessing Pain Research: A Narrative Review of Emerging Pain Methods, Their Technosocial Implications, and Opportunities for Multidisciplinary Approaches.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Characterizing fibromyalgia flares: a prospective observational study.Reumatologia · 2022Article
- A Link between Atmospheric Pressure and Fertility ofInsects · 2021Article
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Abstract
Self-reported pain levels in patients with fibromyalgia may change according to weather conditions. Previous studies suggest that low barometric pressure (BMP) is significantly related to increased pain, but that the contribution of changes in BMP has limited clinical relevance. The present study examined whether BMP influenced variability in perceived stress, and if stress levels moderated or mediated the relationship between BMP and pain. Forty-eight patients with fibromyalgia enrolled in a randomized controlled trail (RCT) reported pain and emotional state three times daily with mobile phone messages for a 30-consecutive day period prior to the start of the treatment in the RCT. The patients were unaware that weather data were collected simultaneously with pain and emotional reports. The results showed that lower BMP and increased humidity were significantly associated with increased pain intensity and pain unpleasantness, but only BMP was associated with stress levels. Stress levels moderated the impact of lower BMP on pain intensity significantly, where higher stress was associated with higher pain. Significant individual differences were present shown by a sub-group of patients (n = 8) who reacted opposite compared to the majority of patients (n = 40) with increased pain reports to an increase in BMP. In sum, lower BMP was associated with increased pain and stress levels in the majority of the patients, and stress moderated the relationship between BMP and pain at the group-level. Significant individual differences in response to changes in BMP were present, and the relation between weather and pain may be of clinical relevance at the individual level.
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