s' questionnaires, I tried my best to explain it in this blog:
http://slightlyalive.blogspot.com/2010_02_11_archive.html
Mary Schweitzer
On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Tom Kindlon <tomkindlon@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just seen a full copy of this.
> It uses the Reeves et al. (2005) "empiric" criteria, although readers
> would have no real way of knowing from it alone (e.g. the 2005 paper
> isn't referenced at all).
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> Here's an extract which shows it isn't clear:
> -----
> 2.1. Study design
> This study enrolled participants from the Wichita CFS Surveillance Study,
> conducted between 1997 and 2000 (for more information, please refer to Rey=
es
> et al., 2003) who also participated in a 2-day in-hospital case
> control study (conducted
> between 2002 and 2003). In brief, 43 subjects meeting criteria for CFS
> and 60 nonfatigued
> (NF) subjects were identified. CFS was diagnosed by criteria of the 1994
> International Research Case Definition (Fukuda et al., 1994) as
> recommended by the
> International CFS study group (Reeves et al., 2003). To identify
> exclusionary medical
> conditions, a standardized medical history, review of current
> medications, standardized
> physical examination as well as routine blood and urine laboratory tests w=
ere
> performed as recommended by the International CFS Study Group.
> ------
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> The Reeves et al. (2005) paper shows there were 43 with that
> ("empiric") criteria:
> http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1741-7015-3-19.pdf
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> This paper which explicitly says it used the Reeves et al. (2005) criteria=
:
> --
> Coping styles in people with chronic fatigue syndrome identified from
> the general population of Wichita, KS.
> Nater UM, Wagner D, Solomon L, Jones JF, Unger ER, Papanicolaou DA,
> Reeves WC, Heim C.
> J Psychosom Res. 2006 Jun;60(6):567-73.
> --
> Says there were 36 Female/7 male, average age 50.6, 3 non-white, all
> the same as the Nater et al. (2011) study.
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> The CDC (and others) need to be clear about what criteria are being used.
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> Tom
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> -------
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> Cumulative life stress in chronic fatigue syndrome.
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> Psychiatry Res. 2011 Aug 12. [Epub ahead of print]
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> Nater UM, Maloney E, Heim C, Reeves WC.
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> Chronic Viral Diseases Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens
> and Pathology (proposed), National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic
> Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention,
> Atlanta, GA, USA; Clinical Biopsychology, Dept. of Psychology,
> University of Marburg, Germany.
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