Dizziness
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Dizziness or light headedness is an unpleasant sensation feeling that one may faint.
Prevalence[edit | edit source]
- In a 2001 Belgian study, 69.6% of patients meeting the Fukuda criteria and 74.6 % of patients meeting the Holmes criteria, in a cohort of 2073 CFS patients, reported light headedness.[1]
Symptom recognition[edit | edit source]
The Canadian Consensus Criteria lists light headedness as a symptom of ME/CFS under the section Autonomic Manifestations.[2]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ De Becker, P; McGregor, N; De Meirleir, K (September 2001), "A definition-based analysis of symptoms in a large cohort of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.", Journal of Internal Medicine, 250 (3): 234-240, PMID 11555128
- ↑ Carruthers, Bruce M.; Jain, Anil Kumar; De Meirleir, Kenny L.; Peterson, Daniel L.; Klimas, Nancy G.; Lerner, A. Martin; Bested, Alison C.; Flor-Henry, Pierre; Joshi, Pradip; Powles, A C Peter; Sherkey, Jeffrey A.; van de Sande, Marjorie I. (2003), "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Clinical Working Case Definition, Diagnostic and Treatment Protocols", Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 11 (2): 7-115, doi:10.1300/J092v11n01_02