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Speech difficulties

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Speech problems in ME/CFSAction for ME, May 10, 2015.

Speech difficulties are reported by people with ME/CFS and include word-finding problems and other language difficulties.

Prevalence[edit | edit source]

  • 2001, In a Belgian study, 31.8% of patients meeting the Fukuda criteria and 36.2% of patients meeting the Holmes criteria, in a cohort of 2073 CFS patients, reported speech difficulties.[1]

Symptom recognition[edit | edit source]

Slowed speech is one of the examples of neurocognitive symptoms in the International Consensus Criteria.[2]

Notable studies[edit | edit source]

Possible causes[edit | edit source]

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References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ De Becker, Pascale; McGregor, Neil; De Meirleir, Kenny (December 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. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2796.2001.00890.x.
  2. ↑ Carruthers, BM; van de Sande, MI; De Meirleir, KL; Klimas, NG; Broderick, G; Mitchell, T; Staines, D; Powles, ACP; Speight, N; Vallings, R; Bateman, L; Bell, DS; Carlo-Stella, N; Chia, J; Darragh, A; Gerken, A; Jo, D; Lewis, DP; Light, AR; Light, KC; Marshall-Gradisnik, S; McLaren-Howard, J; Mena, I; Miwa, K; Murovska, M; Stevens, SR (2012), Myalgic encephalomyelitis: Adult & Paediatric: International Consensus Primer for Medical Practitioners (PDF), ISBN 978-0-9739335-3-6
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