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We studied 10 women (54.0 \u00b1 3.7 years of age) with FM diagnosed in accordance with the classification criteria of the American College of Rheumatology, and controls in three groups (n = 10 in each group) \u2013 age-matched women who were healthy or who had rheumatoid arthritis or systemic scleroderma (SSc). All 40 subjects were tested within a 5-week period by the same investigators, using two noninvasive methods, laser fluxmetry and capillary microscopy. The FM patients were compared with the healthy controls (negative controls) and with rheumatoid arthritis patients and SSc patients (positive controls). FM patients had fewer capillaries in the nail fold (P &lt; 0.001) and significantly more capillary dilatations (P &lt; 0.05) and irregular formations (P &lt; 0.01) than the healthy controls. Interestingly, the peripheral blood flow in FM patients was much less (P &lt; 0.001) than in healthy controls but did not differ from that of SSc patients (P = 0.73). 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