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posted by mrpg on Tuesday March 13 2018, @02:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the dentists-of-dentists-are-scared dept.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified a cluster of dentists that all contracted idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and were treated at a particular Virginia care center:

A cluster of cases of a progressive lung disease occurred among dentists and other dental workers treated at one Virginia care center, according to Thursday's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report [open, DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6709a2] [DX] from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Of nine patients, referred to as a cluster, seven died during the reported 16-year period. The disease, called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, is a chronic, progressive lung disease with a poor prognosis. The cause is unknown.

[...] In this case, among 894 patients treated for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at the Virginia hospital, nine patients -- or 1% -- were identified as dentists or dental technicians. This number "was about 23 times higher than expected," Nett said.

The clustering may be explained by occupational exposure to an unknown hazard.

Also at Newsweek.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by NotSanguine on Tuesday March 13 2018, @08:23AM (4 children)

    But there is better terms that doctors use like "fibromyalgia". This is generally used by doctors to say the patient has a problem with their head, not their body.

    tl;dr: You're uninformed and talking out of your ass.

    Clearly you don't know anyone with Fibromyalgia. If you did, you'd have known that you're talking out of you ass too [wikipedia.org]:

    Fibromyalgia (FM) is a medical condition characterised by chronic widespread pain and a heightened pain response to pressure.[2]
    [...]
    The cause of fibromyalgia is unknown; however, it is believed to involve a combination of genetic and environmental factors, with half the risk attributed to each.[3][4] The condition runs in families, and many genes are believed to be involved.[6] Environmental factors may include psychological stress, trauma and certain infections.[3] The pain appears to result from processes in the central nervous system, and the condition is referred to as a "central sensitization syndrome".[2][3] Fibromyalgia is recognized as a disorder by the US National Institutes of Health and the American College of Rheumatology.

    https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/fibromyalgia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354780 [mayoclinic.org]
    https://www.rheumatology.org/I-Am-A/Patient-Caregiver/Diseases-Conditions/Fibromyalgia [rheumatology.org]

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  • (Score: 2) by choose another one on Tuesday March 13 2018, @11:52AM (3 children)

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 13 2018, @11:52AM (#651775)

    Not sure who is talking out of exactly which orifice, but you just just called out someone for saying that doctors say fibro is "a problem with their head, not their body" by quoting an article which says fibro is a problem in the head, not the body ("appears to result from processes in the central nervous system" - that would be in the head, for most of us...).

    When I went to the stroke consultant with problems walking and he said "often the biggest loss after stroke is confidence" did I complain that "****ing doctor says it's all in my head"? Of course not - because it _is_ all in my head, it was a ****ing stroke!

    • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday March 13 2018, @01:04PM (2 children)

      The Central Nervous System [wikipedia.org] is not just the brain.

      I interpreted (perhaps incorrectly, but I doubt it) that OP was saying that Fibromyalgia was a psychological disorder rather than an physical disorder.

      OP said:

      But there is better terms that doctors use like "fibromyalgia". This is generally used by doctors to say the patient has a problem with their head, not their body.

      That's is a very common, but easily refuted, misconception about fibromyalgia.

      What's more, it's difficult for me to see how else to interpret that, given that "head" is pretty clearly used to mean "mind" given the context.

      I'm going to assume that English isn't your native language, rather than jumping to more negative conclusions.

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      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 14 2018, @01:09PM (1 child)

        by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday March 14 2018, @01:09PM (#652343) Homepage
        Nah, you can get take a few more jabs at him, he won't fight back - if he thinks the central nervous system is all in his head, then clearly he has no spine!
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