- Northern European ancestry
- Morning stiffness/achiness > 30min→ B shoulders, hips/pelvis, neck
- Can't sleep secondary to inability to find comfortable position
- Difficulty combing hair/taking on/off shirts/putting on bra
- ~10% of those w/PMR will go on to develop GCA
- 50% will havedistal synovitis, bursitis and/or edema
- Other patients w/no objective joint or peri-articular findings
- Subjective weakness (related to pain)
- Mild to moderate elevations of ESR and CRP