Annual incidence of recorded fibromyalgia diagnoses in UK primary care, 2001 to 2013

33.3

new cases per 10,000 people per year, UK

“Overall annual incidence per 100,000 people for FM was 33.3 (32.8-33.8)”

Collin et al., Trends in the incidence of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia in the UK, 2001-2013: a Clinical Practice Research Datalink study (J R Soc Med 2017), abstract, 2017-03

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Peer-reviewed study

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2026-11-06

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What to know

GP-recorded diagnoses in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink; the same study reports 38.2 per 100,000 in 2013. No worldwide fibromyalgia incidence is published.

Arithmetic

33.3 per 100,000 is 3.33 per 10,000 (divided by 10).

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