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Severe 'Mono' Infection May Raise Risk For Chronic Fatigue SyndromeSaturday 6 April 2019
From U.S. News & World Report:
Severe 'Mono' Infection May Raise Risk for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome TUESDAY, April 2, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- As if having the exhausting "kissing disease" -- also known as mononucleosis, or "mono" -- isn't bad enough, about 1 in 10 people with this infection will develop chronic fatigue syndrome in six months, researchers report. To better predict which people with mono might end up with debilitating chronic fatigue syndrome, investigators at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago developed a new scale to rate how severe a mononucleosis infection is. They then tested it in 126 college students diagnosed with mono. "We looked at what factors correlated with bad outcomes and then tried to validate these measures," said Dr. Ben Katz, an attending pediatric infectious diseases specialist. People with the most severe mononucleosis infections based on the new scale were more than three times as likely to meet the diagnostic criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome, Katz explained. And three factors in particular often showed up in people with more severe mono. These included:
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