Different risk factors distinguish myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome from severe fatigue.


Journal

Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
11 02 2023
Historique:
received: 10 06 2022
accepted: 02 02 2023
entrez: 11 2 2023
pubmed: 12 2 2023
medline: 15 2 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Fatigue is a common reason that patients seek medical care. Only a fraction of these patients meet criteria for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). To determine if ME/CFS is just a more extreme form of fatigue, or a qualitatively different condition, we assessed whether risk factors for ME/CFS and for Severe Fatigue were similar. An email questionnaire that inquired about symptoms of Severe Fatigue and ME/CFS was completed by 41,802 US female nurses from whom detailed medical and lifestyle information had been collected since 1989: 102 met criteria for ME/CFS, 522 had Severe Fatigue, and 41,178 individuals were without significant chronic fatigue. We used Cox proportional hazards regression to estimate the Hazard Ratio (HR) of Severe Fatigue and of ME/CFS with each of several potential risk factors, according to the level of exposure to each risk factor. The risk of Severe Fatigue was significantly increased among participants who were older, had a higher BMI in adulthood, used hormone therapy, had increased alcohol intake and decreased caffeine intake. In contrast, these risk factor associations were not seen in people with ME/CFS. A self-reported past history of acute infectious mononucleosis was associated with a non-significantly increased Hazard Ratio of later ME/CFS (HR 1.77, 0.87-3.61) and, to a lesser extent, of Severe Fatigue (HR 1.28, 0.98-1.66). The different contribution of various risk factors to Severe Fatigue and ME/CFS suggests that ME/CFS has a qualitatively different underlying biology from the more common state of Severe Fatigue.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36774379
doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-29329-x
pii: 10.1038/s41598-023-29329-x
pmc: PMC9922267
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

2469

Subventions

Organisme : NIAID NIH HHS
ID : U54 AI138370
Pays : United States
Organisme : NINDS NIH HHS
ID : R01 NS097723
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIH HHS
ID : U01 CA176726
Pays : United States

Informations de copyright

© 2023. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Natalia Palacios (N)

Department of Public Health, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 61 Wilder Street, O'Leary Library, Suite 540-K, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA.
Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA, USA.
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Samantha Molsberry (S)

Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Kathryn C Fitzgerald (KC)

Department of Public Health, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 61 Wilder Street, O'Leary Library, Suite 540-K, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA.
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Anthony L Komaroff (AL)

Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. komaroff@hms.harvard.edu.
Center for Solutions for ME/CFS, Columbia University, New York, USA. komaroff@hms.harvard.edu.

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