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Fatiguing illness among employees in three large state office buildings, California, 1993: Was there an outbreak?
Abigail Shefer,James G. Dobbins,Keiji Fukuda,Lea Steele,Denise Koo,Rosane Nisenbaum,Rosane Nisenbaum,George W. Rutherford +7 more
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Despite finding a substantial number of employees with fatiguing illness in the two state office buildings, the prevalence was not significantly different than that for a comparable control building and case prevalence rates for all three categories of fatigue, as determined by multivariate analysis.About:
This article is published in Journal of Psychiatric Research.The article was published on 1997-01-01. It has received 27 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.read more
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The epidemiology of chronic fatigue in San Francisco
Lea Steele,James G. Dobbins,Keiji Fukuda,Michele Reyes,Bonnie Randall,Michele Koppelman,William C. Reeves +6 more
TL;DR: Conditions associated with unexplained CF occur in all sociodemographic groups but appear to be most prevalent among women, persons with lower income, and some racial minorities.
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The Epidemiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
TL;DR: This review concerns the epidemiology of CFS, and it will therefore emphasize studies that have taken a population or primary care perspective, and the importance of recent reviews and chapters that have considered the condition from the point of view of such diverse disciplines.
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Chronic fatigue syndrome
Anthony S. David,Simon Wessely +1 more
TL;DR: This review looks back on several controversies over CFS with respect to its definition, diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment and discusses promising future issues, such as psychopathophysiology and mechanisms of improvement, and suggests multidisciplinary prospective studies of CFS and fatigue in the general population.
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The epidemiology of chronic fatigue syndrome
TL;DR: This paper is a revision of an earlier paper on the same subject (Wessely, 1995), and will therefore emphasise those studies which take a population or primary care perspective.
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A systematic review of chronic fatigue, its syndromes and ethnicity: prevalence, severity, co-morbidity and coping
Sokratis Dinos,Bernadette Khoshaba,Deborah Ashby,Peter D White,James Nazroo,Simon Wessely,Kamaldeep Bhui +6 more
TL;DR: It does appear that some ethnic minority groups are more likely to suffer from CF and CFS compared with White people and Psychosocial risk factors found in high-risk groups and ethnicity warrant further investigation to improve the understanding of aetiology and the management of this complex condition.
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The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Comprehensive Approach to Its Definition and Study
Keiji Fukuda,Sharon E. Straus,Ian B. Hickie,Michael Sharpe,James G. Dobbins,Anthony L. Komaroff +5 more
TL;DR: A conceptual framework and a set of research guidelines for use in studies of the chronic fatigue syndrome are developed that cover the clinical and laboratory evaluation of persons with unexplained fatigue; the identification of underlying conditions that may explain the presence of chronic fatigue; revised criteria for defining cases of the Chronic fatigue syndrome; and a strategy for dividing the chronic Fatigue syndrome and other unexplained cases of Chronic fatigue into subgroups.
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Working Case Definition
Gary P. Holmes,Jonathan E. Kaplan,Nelson M. Gantz,Anthony L. Komaroff,Lawrence B. Schonberger,Sharon E. Straus,James F. Jones,Richard E. Dubois,Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles,Savita Pahwa,Giovanna Tosato,Leonard S. Zegans,David T. Purtilo,Nathaniel A. Brown,Robert T. Schooley,Irena Brus +15 more
TL;DR: A new name is proposed for the chronic Epstein-Barr virus syndrome--the chronic fatigue syndrome--that more accurately describes this symptom complex as a syndrome of unknown cause characterized primarily by chronic fatigue.
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Immunologic abnormalities in chronic fatigue syndrome.
TL;DR: The patterns of immune marker abnormalities observed was compatible with a chronic viral reactivation syndrome and there were significant differences between patients with CFS and controls.
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The epidemiology of self-perceived fatigue among adults
TL;DR: It is found that the lifestyle variable physical activity and such psychological variables as self-reported depression, anxiety, and emotional stress are highly associated with fatigue and are independently predictive of it.