According to a survey by Istituto Piepoli, only 1/3 of Italians know about fibromyalgia and only 1 out of 10 gives an appropriate description - explains Livio Gigliuto, Vice President at Istituto Piepoli.
For the International Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, the Italian Fibromyalgia Syndrome Association (Aisf Odv) with the unconditional contribution of AlfaSigma promotes’ Fibro… what? Let’s put a face to fibromyalgia’.
According to a survey by Istituto Piepoli, only 1/3 of Italians, in fact, know about fibromyalgia and only 1 out of 10 give an appropriate description of it – explains Livio Gigliuto, Vice President at Istituto Piepoli. It is mostly known as a “severe pain” or muscle affecting disease.
Among those who know it the most, however, there is a strong gender difference: they are women in particular, with a prevalence of 37 percent compared to 25 percent of men, and especially those aged 34 to 45 and with a high level of study do know more about the disease. Only one out of four men, in fact, knows what fibromyalgia is, and the level of knowledge collapses between over 54 and less educated.
