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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) symptom-based phenotypes in two clinical cohorts of adult patients in the UK and The Netherlands.
Journal of psychosomatic research - 1 Feb 2016
Collin Simon M, Nikolaus Stephanie, Heron Jon, Knoop Hans, White Peter D, Crawley Esther
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Studies have provided evidence of heterogeneity within chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), but few have used data from large cohorts of CFS patients or replication samples. METHODS: 29 UK secondary-care CFS services recorded the presence/absence of 12 CFS-related symptoms; 8 of these symptoms were recorded by a Dutch tertiary service. Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was used to assign symptom profiles...
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