Labeled the "yuppie flu" in the 198...

Labeled the "yuppie flu" in the 1980 because it was believed to affect primarily upper-middle-class white professionals, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) actually is more prevalent in ethnic populations and cheap socioeconomic groups, according to a consideration published in the Oct 11 1999 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Researchers at DePaul University, Chicago, lately surveyed a community-based sample of adults and set up that CFS--a chronic health condition characterized at severe fatigue that lasts for at least six months--is more often met with among women than men; among Latinos, African Americans, and other minority arranges than whites; and among race with low education levels and of cheap occupational status than professionals.

In the cogitation 18,675 individuals from a socioeconomically and ethnically diverse sample of adults living in eight Chicago neighborhoods were covered by telephone for CFS-like symptoms. A review panel of four physicians and a psychiatrist then medically examined and made final diagnoses of CF for those individuals who met the criteria for CF as established at the Centers for Disease direction and Prevention (CDC). The findings indicate an estimated prevalence rate for CF of 042%

Besides revealing that CF rates are higher among Latinos and African Americans, the data point out that CFS is substantially higher among women populace in the 40- to 49-year-old age range, and skilled workers. Researchers give an inkling of that earlier studies showing CF to be more prevalent among individuals in upper social classes used nonrandom, nonrepresentative sampling strategies. They deduce that elevated rates of CF in minority arranges are in line with overall poor health statuses erect in ethnic groups due to factors like as inadequate health care, psychosocial stres behavioral risks, and hazardous occupations.

The research indicates that as many as 800000 the public in the United States may endure from CFS. The estimate is twice the number previously reported through the CDC.

L A Jason et al, "A community-based thought of chronic fatigue syndrome," Archives of Internal Medicine 159 (Oct 11 1999) 2129-2137

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