tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học: "Use of medications by people with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy persons: a population-based study of fatiguing illness in Georgia"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài :Use of medications by people with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy persons: a population-based study of fatiguing illness in Georgia | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Research Use of medications by people with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy persons a population-based study of fatiguing illness in Georgia Roumiana S Boneva Jin-Mann S Lin Elizabeth M Maloney James F Jones and William C Reeves Open Access Address Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Road Atlanta Georgia 30333 USA Email Roumiana S Boneva - rboneva@ Jin-Mann S Lin - jlin2@ Elizabeth M Maloney-emaloney1@ James F Jones - jfjones@ William C Reeves - wreeves@ Corresponding author Published 20 July 2009 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 67 doi 86 1477-7525-7-67 Received 30 June 2008 Accepted 20 July 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 67 2009 Boneva et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Chronic fatigue syndrome CFS is a debilitating condition of unknown etiology and no definitive pharmacotherapy. Patients are usually prescribed symptomatic treatment or selfmedicate. We evaluated prescription and non-prescription drug use among persons with CFS in Georgia and compared it to that in non-fatigued Well controls and also to chronically Unwell individuals not fully meeting criteria for CFS. Methods A population-based case-control study. To identify persons with possible CFS-like illness and controls we conducted a random-digit dialing telephone screening of l9 807 Georgia residents followed by a detailed telephone interview of 5 630 to identify subjects with CFS-like illness other chronically Unwell and Well subjects. All those with CFS-like illness n 469 a random sample of chronically Unwell subjects n 505 and Well individuals n 641 who were age-