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Participants were sent questionnaires about their PMR symptoms, treatments and overall health, including an item about how their PMR symptoms affected intimate and sexual relationships. The proportions reporting the relevance of intimate and sexual relationships, the effect of PMR on these relationships and the associations with PMR symptoms and general health were explored.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The baseline survey was completed by 652 of 739 patients (response 90.1%), with 446 of 576 (78.0%) responding at 2\u2009years. The mean age of respondents was 72.4\u2009years, and 62.2% were female. At baseline, 363 of 640 (56.7%) respondents reported that intimate and sexual relationships were not relevant to them. One hundred and thirteen of 277 (40.8%) respondents reported that PMR had a large effect on intimate relationships. 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