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Review of the Prevalence of Chronic Fatigue Worldwide  

Son, Chang-Gue (Liver and Immunology Research Center of Daejeon University Oriental Hospital)
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The Journal of Korean Medicine / v.33, no.2, 2012 , pp. 25-33 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objectives: To obtain the features of prevalence of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome worldwide. Methods: All research reports for prevalence of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome were selected from PubMed, KMbase and KISS database, and the prevalence were analyzed according to the symptoms and countries. Results: A total of 39 articles from 13 other countries and 4 articles from Korea met the criteria of this study. The prevalence of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome was about 10% and 1% respectively. The prevalence for Korean was 17.7% and 1.4% respectively, however the data have a limitation due to the lack of well-designed studies. Conclusions: This report can provide essential information to build a strategy for development of therapeutics against chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome using traditional Korean medicine.
Keywords
Chronic fatigue; Idiopathic chronic fatigue; chronic fatigue syndrome; prevalence; Korean medicine;
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