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Arthralgia among women taking aromatase inhibitors: is there a shared inflammatory mechanism with co-morbid fatigue and insomnia?

Overview of attention for article published in Breast Cancer Research, June 2015
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Title
Arthralgia among women taking aromatase inhibitors: is there a shared inflammatory mechanism with co-morbid fatigue and insomnia?
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Breast Cancer Research, June 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13058-015-0599-7
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Joshua Bauml, Lu Chen, Jinbo Chen, Jean Boyer, Michael Kalos, Susan Q. Li, Angela DeMichele, Jun J. Mao

Abstract

Arthralgia is a common toxicity among women taking aromatase inhibitors (AIs) and can lead to premature discontinuation of therapy. We evaluated the association between arthralgia, co-morbid fatigue/insomnia and inflammatory biomarkers among women taking AIs. Women taking AIs for early stage breast cancer completed a modified version of the Brief Pain Inventory, the Brief Fatigue Inventory, the Insomnia Severity Index, and provided blood samples for simultaneous assessment of 34 inflammatory biomarkers using a Luminex kit. Two-sided t-tests were used to compare inflammatory biomarker concentrations for patients with or without moderate to severe arthralgia. Multivariate linear regression analyses were performed to evaluate the relationship between comorbid arthralgia, fatigue and insomnia with identified biomarker concentrations. Among 203 participants, severity of arthralgia, fatigue and insomnia significantly correlated with each other (p < 0.001 for all comparisons). After controlling for race, chemotherapy history, NSAID use, age and BMI, the co-existence of arthralgia, fatigue and insomnia was associated with elevated CRP (β 93.1, 95 % Confidence Interval (CI) [25.1, 161.1], p = 0.008), Eotaxin (β 79.9, 95 % CI [32.5, 127.2], p = 0.001), MCP-1 (β 151.2, 95 % CI [32.7, 269.8], p = 0.013), and VDBP (β 19422, 95 % CI [5500.5, 33344], p = 0.006). Among women taking AIs, the co-existence of arthralgia, fatigue and insomnia was associated with increased levels of inflammatory biomarkers (elevated CRP, Eotaxin, MCP-1 and VDBP). These findings suggest a possible shared inflammatory mechanism underlying these common symptoms.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 87 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 12 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 13%
Researcher 10 11%
Student > Master 9 10%
Other 5 6%
Other 16 18%
Unknown 24 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 28%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 14%
Neuroscience 6 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 6%
Psychology 4 5%
Other 8 9%
Unknown 28 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 August 2016.
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#8,473,509
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#966
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#94,383
of 277,841 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Breast Cancer Research
#20
of 37 outputs
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