{"id":11697,"date":"2017-02-03T09:43:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T09:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=11697"},"modified":"2017-02-05T10:30:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T10:30:03","slug":"30-of-people-with-mecfs-in-japan-are-severely-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/30-of-people-with-mecfs-in-japan-are-severely-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"30% of people with ME\/CFS in Japan are severely affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Article abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the Japanese Ministry for Health, Labour, and\u00a0Welfare commissioned a national patient survey of ME\/CFS patients in\u00a0 Japan. Japan ME Association president Mieko Shinohara graciously\u00a0summarizes the survey results here for us, which revealed that 30% of\u00a0ME\/CFS patients in Japan are severely ill patients. The study was\u00a0originally published in Japanese in the July 2015 issue of\u00a0Normalization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iacfsme.org\/PDFS\/2017JanNewsletter\/8-Japan-2014-Patient-Survey.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">ME\/CFS Patient Survey Report: Ministry of Health Survey Reveals Harsh Reality of ME\/CFS Patients in Japan<\/a>, by Mieko Shinohara <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in<\/span> <em>IACFS\/ME\u00a0 newsletter<\/em>, January 30, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Health rising<\/strong> post, by Cort Johnson, 4 Feb 2017: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthrising.org\/forums\/threads\/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-cfs-even-worse-in-japan-than-u-s.5242\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME\/CFS) Even Worse in Japan Than U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article abstract: In 2014, the Japanese Ministry for Health, Labour, and\u00a0Welfare commissioned a national patient survey of ME\/CFS patients in\u00a0 Japan. Japan ME Association president Mieko Shinohara graciously\u00a0summarizes the survey results here for us, which revealed that 30% of\u00a0ME\/CFS patients &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/30-of-people-with-mecfs-in-japan-are-severely-affected\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[215,3486,3487,161],"class_list":["post-11697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-iacfsme","tag-japan","tag-mieko-shinohara","tag-survey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-32F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11756,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697\/revisions\/11756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}