Psychiatry · Psychiatry / Stress-related disorders
Chronic fatigue syndrome
also: Myalgic encephalomyelitis
Disabling fatigue with post-exertional malaise.
- Specialty
- Psychiatry
- Subspecialty
- Psychiatry / Stress-related disorders
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, 2–4:1 female predominance; Children: yes, adolescents
- Gene(s) involved
- HLA-DQA1, HLA-DRB1
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Myalgic encephalomyelitis
Etiology & mechanism
Immune, autonomic and metabolic dysregulation after infection.
Gene(s) involved (2)
Symptoms & signs (6)
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