A Community-Based Study of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Abstract

Chronic fatigue syndrome is a common chronic health condition, especially for women, occurring across ethnic groups. Earlier findings suggesting that CFS is a syndrome primarily affecting white, middle-class patients were not supported by our findings.

Perceived stigma in functional somatic syndromes and comparable medical conditions

“…Il to 21 % (Wessely, 1997;Buchwald et al, 1987) while community studies report a prevalence of 0.2 to 0.6% (Steele et al, 1998;Lawrie & Pelosi, 1995;Jason et al, 1999).…”

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“…Conversely conditions involving hypocortisolism may be more strongly related to sex steroid suppression of the HPA axis and promotion of HPG function, a configuration seemingly available only to female subjects. This would suggest that the hypocortisolism seen in diseases, such as CFS [54][55][56], may be a result of the complexity afforded to the interaction between the HPA and HPG in female subjects, and may be an explanation for the reported prevalence of such diseases in women [57][58][59][60][61][62]. Indeed, these authors report that approximately 70% of observed CFS patients are women.…”

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“…If they did, the team brought them into clinics for evaluation. As a result of the findings from this 4 and other studies, the CDC removed the word 'rare' from its description of the syndrome. In 2015, a report 5 from the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimated that 836,000 to 2.5 million Americans have the disorder.…”