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Chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome in the general population

Gijs Bleijenberg email

Expert Centre for Chronic Fatigue, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, 1:52doi:10.1186/1477-7525-1-52

Published: 6 October 2003

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

Both chronic fatigue (CF) connected to a chronic or serious disease, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) form a serious problem in our Western society. It causes a lot of suffering for patients and may lead to disability to work. Doctors are frequently confronted with these patients, but it is unknown how many of these patients are suffering without help-seeking.


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