Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome are being ignored
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Acute fatigue in chronic fatigue syndrome patients.
BACKGROUND Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients often complain that they are more susceptible to acute mental fatigue. It is important to determine whether this is observed using objective tests of sustained attention and responding. METHODS Sixty-seven patients who fulfilled the criteria for CFS proposed by Sharpe et al. (1991) were compared with 126 matched healthy controls. Acute fatigu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.329.7479.1405-c