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How common is chronic fatigue syndrome; how long is a piece of string?
White PD
How common is chronic fatigue syndrome; how long is a piece of string?
Population Health Metrics 5:6, 2007.
The complete electronic version of this article is available at http:/pophealthmetrics.com/content/5/1/6
Summary
This article is an invited commentary by Peter D. White on the recent CDC study of CFS in metropolitan, urban and rural Georgia. Professor White’s comments address methodological problems of evaluating an illness like CFS that has no characteristic diagnostic signs or laboratory abnormalities and must be diagnosed based on self-reported symptoms and excluding medical and psychiatric conditions that have a similar clinical picture. He also discusses problems of psychiatric comorbidity. This article is also freely available over the internet by means of the above URL.
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