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Kingsley Arthritis Research Therapy 2012,14:103 /content/14/1/103 EDITORIAL Autonomic dysfunction in women with ? bromyalgia J Derek Kingsley* See related research by Ribeiro et al., /content/13/6/R190 lower oxygen consumption (VO2max) than healthy Abstract controls, which has been reported previously [3]. More importantly, Ribeiro and colleagues reported that chrono tropic reserve was signi? cantly lower in women with FM than healthy controls. Further more, 57.1% of the women with FM presented chrono tropic incom- petence compared to none