Hope123
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This is an older article but I want to find it due to its statement that sleep apnea should not be exclusion criteria for ME/CFS. Please send me full-text via PM or post in the library. It goes back to how the CDC consistently excludes people with sleep apnea from a diagnosis of CFS although people with CFS treated for sleep apnea don't have CFS symptom resolution.
Thanks!
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J Health Psychol. 2009 Nov;14(8):1251-67.
Sleep apnea and psychological functioning in chronic fatigue syndrome.
Libman E, Creti L, Baltzan M, Rizzo D, Fichten CS, Bailes S.
Department of Psychiatry, SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. eva.libman@mcgill.ca
Abstract
Objectives were to explore: (1) whether sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) should be considered a chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) comorbidity, rather than a diagnostic exclusion criterion; and (2) to compare sleep/wake/ psychopathology in individuals with CFS, controls and another illness. Participants (CFS, SAHS, controls) completed questionnaires and were evaluated for SAHS; 68 percent were subsequently diagnosed with SAHS. CFS participants with and without SAHS did not differ. Both clinical groups were less well adjusted than controls. We conclude that SAHS should not be an exclusion criterion for CFS and that psychological problems in CFS seem a consequence of coping with illness.
PMID: 19858344 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Thanks!
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J Health Psychol. 2009 Nov;14(8):1251-67.
Sleep apnea and psychological functioning in chronic fatigue syndrome.
Libman E, Creti L, Baltzan M, Rizzo D, Fichten CS, Bailes S.
Department of Psychiatry, SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. eva.libman@mcgill.ca
Abstract
Objectives were to explore: (1) whether sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) should be considered a chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) comorbidity, rather than a diagnostic exclusion criterion; and (2) to compare sleep/wake/ psychopathology in individuals with CFS, controls and another illness. Participants (CFS, SAHS, controls) completed questionnaires and were evaluated for SAHS; 68 percent were subsequently diagnosed with SAHS. CFS participants with and without SAHS did not differ. Both clinical groups were less well adjusted than controls. We conclude that SAHS should not be an exclusion criterion for CFS and that psychological problems in CFS seem a consequence of coping with illness.
PMID: 19858344 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]