Can the chronic fatigue syndrome be defined by distinct clinical features?

Psychological Medicine
I HickieD Wakefield

Abstract

To determine whether patients diagnosed as having chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) constitute a clinically homogeneous class, multivariate statistical analyses were used to derive symptom patterns and potential patient subclasses in 565 patients. The notion that patients currently diagnosed as having CFS constitute a single homogeneous class was rejected. An alternative set of clinical subgroups was derived. The validity of these subgroups was assessed by sociodemographic, psychiatric, immunological and illness behaviour variables. A two-class statistical solution was considered most coherent, with patients from the smaller class (27% of the sample) having clinical characteristics suggestive of somatoform disorders. The larger class (73% of sample) presented a more limited combination of fatigue and neuropsychological symptoms, and only moderate disability but remained heterogeneous clinically. The two patient groups differed with regard to duration of illness, spontaneous recovery, severity of current psychological morbidity, utilization of medical services and CD8 T cell subset counts. The distribution of symptoms among patients was not unimodal, supporting the notion that differences between the proposed subclasses were not du...Continue Reading

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