Chronic fatigue syndrome: Is it one discrete syndrome or many? Implications for the "one vs. many" functional somatic syndromes debate

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 455-459

  White, Peter D ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic fatigue syndrome; Functional somatic syndromes; Heterogeneity; Homogeneity; Risk markers

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FIBROMYALGIA; FUNCTIONAL SOMATIC SYNDROME; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; IRRITABLE COLON; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOM;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 77953807773     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2010.01.008     Document Type: Review

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