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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic fatigue syndrome may be a heterogeneous combination of conditions

Published in Health and Medicine Week, June 22nd, 2006

Chronic fatigue syndrome appears to be a heterogeneous combination of conditions with different underlying pathophysiological mechanisms.

Scientists in the United States, Australia, and England conducted a study "to validate a latent class structure derived empirically from a clinical data set obtained from persons with chronic medically unexplained fatigue."

Eric Aslakson at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and collaborators wrote, "The strategies utilized in this validation study included: recalculating latent class analysis (LCA) results varying random seeds and the number of initial random starting sets; recalculating LCA...

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