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PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
卷 36, 期 9, 页码 1301-1306出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291706007975
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- NIAID NIH HHS [U19 AI38429] Funding Source: Medline
Background. Comprehensive studies of mortality among patients with chronic fatigue (CF) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have not been published, but several sources suggest that CFS is associated with an elevated risk for suicide. Method. Data on 1201 chronically fatigued patients followed in a university-affiliated tertiary-care clinic for up to 14 years were submitted to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Death Index (NDI) to evaluate all-cause and suicide-caused death rates against standardized mortality rates (SMRs). We used Life Table Analysis to examine the influence of sex and diagnoses of CFS and depression. Results. All-cause mortality in chronically fatigued patients was no higher than expected, but suicide-caused death rates were more than eight times higher than in the US general population. The significant elevation in the SMR of suicide was restricted to those who did not meet criteria for CFS [SMRCF=14-2, 95% confidence interval (CI) 5-7-29-3 versus SMRCFS=3-6, 95% CI 0-4-12-9]. Among chronically fatigued patients who did not meet CFS criteria, those with a lifetime history of major depression (MD) had higher suicide-caused death rates than among their non-depressed counterparts (SMRMD = 19.1, 95 % Cl 7.0-41.5 versus SMRNMD = 5.6, 95 % CI 0.1-31.4), although the difference was not significant. Conclusions. CFS does not appear to be associated with increased all-cause mortality or suicide rates. Clinicians, however, should carefully evaluate patients with CF for depression and suicidality.
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