{"id":19151,"date":"2019-01-21T10:36:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T10:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=19151"},"modified":"2019-01-21T10:36:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T10:36:39","slug":"the-importance-of-accurate-diagnosis-of-me-cfs-in-children-adolescents-a-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/the-importance-of-accurate-diagnosis-of-me-cfs-in-children-adolescents-a-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of accurate diagnosis of ME\/CFS in children & adolescents: a commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The importance of accurate diagnosis of ME\/CFS in children and adolescents: a commentary<\/a>, by Keith J Geraghty and Charles Adeniji in Frontiers in Pediatrics [Preprint December 31, 2018]<\/p>\n

Article abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS) is a chronic\u00a0illness that causes a range of debilitating symptoms. While most\u00a0research has focused on adults, the illness also presents in children\u00a0and adolescents. Many physicians find it difficult to diagnose the illness.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In this commentary paper, we discuss a range of salient themes that have emerged from our ongoing research into the prevalence of ME\/CFS in children and adolescents. We discuss reasons why paediatric prevalence estimates vary widely in the literature, from almost 0% to as high as 3%.<\/p>\n

We argue that there is considerable misdiagnosis of paediatric cases and over-inflation of estimates of paediatric ME\/CFS. Many children and teenagers with general fatigue and other medical complaints may meet loose diagnostic criteria for ME\/CFS.<\/p>\n

We make recommendations for improving epidemiological research and identifying
\npaediatric ME\/CFS in clinical practice.<\/p>\n

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The importance of accurate diagnosis of ME\/CFS in children and adolescents: a commentary, by Keith J Geraghty and Charles Adeniji in Frontiers in Pediatrics [Preprint December 31, 2018] Article abstract: Myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS) is a chronic\u00a0illness that causes … Continue reading →<\/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":false,"_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":[625,4780,257,93,2719,820,258,427],"class_list":["post-19151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-adolescents","tag-charles-adeniji","tag-children","tag-diagnosis","tag-dr-keith-geraghty","tag-epidemiology","tag-paediatric-me","tag-teenagers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-4YT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19151","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=19151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19251,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19151\/revisions\/19251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}