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Polymyalgia rheumatica is a common clinical syndrome in patients older than 55 years and is characterized by stiffness and soreness in the shoulder and hip girdle areas. It is sometimes associated with mild joint swelling. Laboratory findings include mormocytic/normochromic anemia and elevated sedimentation rate. Weakness of the proximal upper and lower extremity muscles is distinctly unusual and suggests a proximal myopathy such as polymyositis.
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