Stress during pregnancy may lead to increased risk of fibromyalgia for baby girls

From a Uni­ver­sity of Pitts­burgh School of Med­i­cine Press Release about find­ings being pre­sented at the Inter­na­tional Con­gress of Neu­roen­docrinol­ogy June 19–22, 2006:

Stress­ful or trau­matic events expe­ri­enced dur­ing preg­nancy can have long-lasting effects on the fetus, yet these effects may not become appar­ent until many years later, accord­ing to a study sug­gest­ing that girls born of such preg­nan­cies may be at greater risk for devel­op­ing a painful mus­cle con­di­tion called fibromyal­gia as adults.

The details sound very much like recent find­ings regard­ing abnor­mal­i­ties in reac­tions to stres­sors in chronic fatique suf­fer­ers. That could lend cre­dence to those who believe fibromyal­gia and chronic fatigue syn­drome are related conditions.

June 29, 2006   Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, From the news

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