Erik Johnson
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Dr Ramsay didn't say ME was viral.
He said that ME differs from post viral fatigue states in this regard.
CFS is a syndrome "research tool" that is used when a doctor has gone through the criteria and excluded known causes of fatigue, and other conditions which might be treated.
The Holmes definition itself explains what the syndrome is for.
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This definition is intentionally restrictive, to maximize the chances that research studies will detect significant associations if such associations truly exist. It identifies persons whose illnesses are most compatible with a possibly unique clinical entity; persons who may have less severe forms of the syndrome or who have less characteristic clinical features may be excluded by the new definition.
The chronic fatigue syndrome is currently an operational concept designed for research purposes that physicians must recognize not necessarily as a single disease but as a syndrome - a complex of potentially related symptoms that tend to occur together - that may have several causes. Periodic reconsideration of conditions such as those listed under major criteria, part 2, should be standard practice in the long-term follow-up of these patients.
He said that ME differs from post viral fatigue states in this regard.
CFS is a syndrome "research tool" that is used when a doctor has gone through the criteria and excluded known causes of fatigue, and other conditions which might be treated.
The Holmes definition itself explains what the syndrome is for.
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This definition is intentionally restrictive, to maximize the chances that research studies will detect significant associations if such associations truly exist. It identifies persons whose illnesses are most compatible with a possibly unique clinical entity; persons who may have less severe forms of the syndrome or who have less characteristic clinical features may be excluded by the new definition.
The chronic fatigue syndrome is currently an operational concept designed for research purposes that physicians must recognize not necessarily as a single disease but as a syndrome - a complex of potentially related symptoms that tend to occur together - that may have several causes. Periodic reconsideration of conditions such as those listed under major criteria, part 2, should be standard practice in the long-term follow-up of these patients.