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Joint hypermobility, anxiety and psychosomatics: two and a half decades of progress toward a new phenotype.
Advances in psychosomatic medicine - 1 Jan 2015
Bulbena Antoni, Pailhez Guillem, Bulbena-Cabré Andrea, Mallorquí-Bagué Nuria, Baeza-Velasco Carolina
Abstract excerpt
The strong association between a heritable collagen condition and anxiety was an unexpected finding that we first described in 1988 at the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona. Since then, several clinical and nonclinical studies have been carried out. In this paper, after summarizing the concept and diagnosis of joint hypermobility (hyperlaxity), we review case-control studies in both directions (anxiety in joint...
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