title: [Analysis of the body composition of Spanish women with fibromyalgia].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the anthropometric profile and body composition of women from Southern Spain diagnosed with fibromyalgia (FM) and to compare the observed values with values from other studies conducted on FM patients and with national reference values.
  
  
  METHODS
  The body composition of 104 women diagnosed with FM was assessed using an eight-electrode impedance meter. The reliability of the body composition measurement was tested in a randomly selected sub-sample (n=28). The reliability study showed a test-retest systematic error close to zero in most of the parameters studied.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The women with FM who were studied had a mean weight of 71.3±13.4 kg, height of 158±6 cm, body mass index of 28.6±5.1 kg/m(2), body fat mass of 38.6±7.6%, total body water of 31.6±3.8 l and muscle mass of 23.4±3.0 kg. In general, there were no substantial differences in weight and body mass index between women with FM and those analyzed in other Spanish and European studies involving FM patients, nor when they were compared with regional or national reference values. However, the prevalence of obesity in the women with FM under study was 33.7%, a higher figure than that from the national reference data for obesity in similarly aged women (i.e. 26,4%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results suggest that obesity is a common condition in women diagnosed with FM, its prevalence in this population being higher than the national reference values. This study provides detailed information about the body composition characteristics of women with FM.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte, Departamento de Educación Física y Deportiva, Universidad de Granada, Granada, España. virginiaparicio@ugr.es
authors.forename: Virginia A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Aparicio
authors.forename: Francisco B
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Ortega
authors.forename: José M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Heredia
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carbonell-Baeza
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Delgado-Fernández
mesh_terms: D050154:Adiposity; D000328:Adult; D001823:Body Composition; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001834:Body Water; D001835:Body Weight; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D005356:Fibromyalgia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology; D009929:Organ Size; D015995:Prevalence; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology