Comment on:
Chronic fatigue syndrome. [Br J Gen Pract. 2001]
Frequency of attendance in general practice and symptoms before development of chronic fatigue syndrome: a case-control study. [Br J Gen Pract. 2001]
Professor Murdoch in the September BJGP 1 uses his study of Down’s syndrome,2 which demonstrated that mothers had an increased number of reported illnesses in the year before the birth, to undermine our interpretation of the findings in our chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) study in the July BJGP. 3 He asks why anyone should believe CFS is caused by behavioural factors.
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Source: Hamilton W. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Br J Gen Pract. 2001 Dec;51(473):1015. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1314178/pdf/11766858.pdf (Full comment)