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CFS overview
The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 

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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also Department of Health and Social Services
known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), and the British Medical Association
post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS), and officially recognized it as a legitimate
various other names, is a syndrome (or and potentially distressing disorder.
group of syndromes) of unknown and Opponents of the term ME maintain there
possibly multiple etiologies, affecting is no inflammation, although there are
the central nervous system (CNS), immune, cases of CFS that present inflammation
and many other systems and organs. There (see Sophia Mirza). United Kingdom and
is no simple diagnostic test; CFS is a Canadian researchers and patients
diagnosis of exclusion, although recent generally use this term in preference to
research indicates biological hallmarks CFS.
of the syndrome, and a diagnostic test is Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS); this
predicted soon. Most definitions (other name was introduced in 1988 by a group of
than the 1991 UK Oxford criteria[1]) United States researchers based at the
require a number of features, the most Centers for Disease Control and
common being severe mental and physical Prevention, and is used increasingly over
exhaustion or depletion which is other designations, particularly in the
"unrelieved by rest" (according to the