Fibromyalgia: Diagnosis and Management.

Fibromyalgia is a chronic, centralized pain syndrome characterized by disordered processing of painful stimuli. Fibromyalgia is diagnosed more frequently in women and occurs globally, affecting 2% of people in the United States. Patients with fibromyalgia have diffuse chronic pain, poor sleep, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and mood disturbances.

Automatic detection of pain using machine learning.

Pain is one of the most common symptoms reported by individuals presenting to hospitals and clinics and is associated with significant disability and economic impacts; however, the ability to quantify and monitor pain is modest and typically accomplished through subjective self-report. Since pain is associated with stereotypical physiological alterations, there is potential for non-invasive, objective pain measurements through biosensors coupled with machine learning algorithms. In the current study, a physiological dataset associated with acute pain induction in healthy adults was leveraged to develop an algorithm capable of detecting pain in real-time and in natural field environments.

Study on illness perceptions of Chinese rural-dwelling adults with hypertension: A descriptive study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the levels of illness perception and identify interrelations among the variables of illness perception, demographic, and health-related characteristics in a sample of rural Chinese adults with hypertension (HTN).

Design: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study using descriptive and correlation analysis.

Sample: It included 163 people diagnosed with HTN for at least 3 years who lived in two rural villages in Zhejiang Province of mainland China during 2014-2015.