Non-musculoskeletal symptoms in joint hypermobility syndrome. Indirect evidence for autonomic dysfunction? [1]

Rheumatology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1194-1195

  Hakim, Alan J ^a,b   Grahame, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b WHIPPS CROSS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; JOINT HYPERMOBILITY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NIGHT SWEAT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CODING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNCOPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME;

EID: 4544219942     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keh279     Document Type: Letter

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