Assessment tool predicts chronic fatigue syndrome 6 months after mono
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 13:40
in Health & Medicine
To assess risk factors for chronic fatigue syndrome after mononucleosis, researchers developed and validated a scale for rating the severity of mononucleosis. In a study with 126 college students, they found that participants with a higher mononucleosis severity score had over three times the risk of meeting two or more sets of diagnostic criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome after six months.