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Assessment Tool Predicts Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 6 Months After Mono

Saturday 13 April 2019

 

From EurekAlert!:

 

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Assessment tool predicts chronic fatigue syndrome 6 months after mono

More severe mononucleosis in college students increases the risk of severe chronic fatigue syndrome 6 months later

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

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Vita Lerman
vlerman@luriechildrens.org

March 20, 2019
Copyright © 2019 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

One to five percent of college students develop infectious mononucleosis each year, and about 10 percent are diagnosed six months later with chronic fatigue syndrome - a complex condition involving severe fatigue coupled with disabling cognitive and musculoskeletal symptoms. To assess risk factors for chronic fatigue syndrome after mononucleosis, researchers developed and validated a scale for rating the severity of mononucleosis. In a study with 126 college students, they found that participants with a higher mononucleosis severity score had over three times the risk of meeting two or more sets of diagnostic criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome after six months, as well as almost twice the chance of being prescribed steroids and an increased risk of being hospitalized during the acute illness. Their findings were published in the Journal of Pediatrics.

"Our simple and objective assessment tool allows clinicians to identify patients at risk for more serious infectious mononucleosis, including those who might develop chronic fatigue syndrome following infectious mononucleosis," says lead author Ben Katz, MD, specialist in pediatric infectious diseases at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "This allows an opportunity to potentially intervene early in efforts to prevent chronic fatigue syndrome that develops in this setting."

 

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