Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease

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The current CDC Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome diagnostic criteria is also known as the Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease (SEID) criteria; SEID was a the new name proposed for chronic fatigue syndrome which is not in use.[1][2]

The proposed name and acronym SEID is meant to hone in on key aspects of ME/CFS. Systemic would give credence to the disease being body wide. Exertion Intolerance would key doctors into understanding that the patient cannot tolerate exertion.[3] Disease gave the self-explanatory label of being an organic biological disease.[1]

The SEID diagnostic criteria and name were first proposed and published by an Institute of Medicine committee on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) in 2015, at the request of the CDC.[1]

Symptoms[edit | edit source]

The latest CDC ME/CFS diagnostic criteria were adopted in 2017, the suggested name of SEID is not used by the CDC.

Core symptoms[edit | edit source]

either

or

Other Common Symptoms[edit | edit source]

Many people with ME/CFS also have other symptoms, such as:

Some people with ME/CFS may also have:

Notes[edit | edit source]

Orthostatic intolerance is also useful for a more severe presentation of the disease; symptom severity and other symptoms are outlined in the Institute of Medicine report.[8]

Adults can be diagnosed at six months of illness and pediatric cases are diagnosed at three months.

Diagnostic criteria for clinicians[edit | edit source]

Diagnostic Algorithm[7]

Diagnosis requires that the patient have the following three symptoms:

1. A substantial reduction or impairment in the ability to engage in pre-illness levels of occupational, educational, social, or personal activities, that persists for more than 6 months and is accompanied by fatigue, which is often profound, is of new or definite onset (not lifelong), is not the result of ongoing excessive exertion, and is not substantially alleviated by rest, and

2. Post-exertional malaise,* and

3. Unrefreshing sleep*

At least one of the two following manifestations is also required:

1. Cognitive impairment* or

2. Orthostatic intolerance

* Frequency and severity of symptoms should be assessed. The diagnosis of ME/CFS (SEID) should be questioned if patients do not have these symptoms at least half of the time with moderate, substantial, or severe intensity.[9][10]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website[edit | edit source]

Note: The name "Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease" (SEID) has not been adopted but the new diagnostic criteria have been incorporated into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ME/CFS website.[11]

Background[edit | edit source]

The name and diagnostic criteria for Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease were the result of the report Beyond Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Redefining an Illness, and is also referred to as the Institute of Medicine report, which was published by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) (formerly the Institute of Medicine, IOM) on February 10, 2015. The.[1]

People[edit | edit source]

Morgan Fairchild is an American actress of film and television. She was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in 1989.

On March 25, 2015, Morgan Fairchild gave a speech during the IOM briefing of the rollout of SEID where she said that compared to others suffering with ME/CFS she has a mild case.

Development[edit | edit source]

In 2014, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Social Security Administration (SSA) asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene an expert committee to examine the evidence base for ME/CFS. In Beyond Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Redefining an Illness, the committee proposes new diagnostic criteria that will facilitate timely diagnosis and care and enhance understanding among health care providers and the public. These criteria, based on expert analysis and the most up-to-date scientific literature, are streamlined for practical use in the clinical setting. The IOM committee also recommends that the name of the disease be changed—from ME/CFS to systemic exertion intolerance disease (SEID)—to more accurately capture the central characteristics of the illness.[1]

Authors[edit | edit source]

The committee on the Diagnostic Criteria for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) consisted of Ellen Wright Clayton, Margarita Alegría, Lucinda Bateman, Lily Chu, Charles Cleeland, Ronald Davis, Betty Diamond, Theodore Ganiats, Betsy Keller, Nancy Klimas, A Martin Lerner, Cynthia Mulrow, Benjamin Natelson, Peter Rowe, and Michael Shelanski.

SEID differences from other criteria[edit | edit source]

The SEID criteria are the most symptom liberal of the valid disease definition criteria. The Canadian Consensus Criteria (CCC) are for ME/CFS, and International Consensus Criteria (ICC) are for ME.[12]

The IOM report calls for the "retirement" of the Oxford criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).[13] The Fukuda criteria are also for CFS.

Comparison chart of the ICC and SEID: ICC compared to IOM (SEID).[14]

Criticism[edit | edit source]

The main criticisms are:

  • the missing of nervous system symptoms from diagnostic criteria, when ME/CFS is a neurological disease
  • the missing of immune system from diagnostic criteria
  • unclear and broad criterion of the main symptom of post-exertional malaise
  • absence of important symptoms like pain, which is listed as a "common symptom" but not is a diagnostic symptom
  • missing exclusions, for example POTS
  • laboratory tests results are missing[15][16][17][18][19][20]

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) was the original name for CFS; the names are often used interchangeably or with the acronym ME/CFS.[21] The name SEID, although giving credence to the fact that patients are intolerant to exertion, has been criticized for not capturing the debilitating central nervous system (CNS) symptoms patients experience as the name ME does.

Twisk (2017) stated that ME and CFS are different illnesses, with ME being a neuromuscular disease and CFS being a partially overlapping fatigue-based illness, and that it was not possible to replace both ME and CFS with a single diagnostic entity. Twisk also stated that SEID included some patients that did not meet either ME or CFS diagnostic criteria.[17]

Clinicians guide[edit | edit source]

The Report Guide for Clinicians explains the core symptoms, additional symptoms, diagnostic criteria and more. (Feb 10, 2015)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website[edit | edit source]

Note: This clinicians guide has been incorporated into the CDC's ME/CFS website under the tab Information for Healthcare Providers under the "Resources" heading with a page disclaimer: "The findings and conclusions in these documents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)."[22]

The Institute of Medicine report[edit | edit source]

Beyond Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Redefining an Illness

Read the report[edit | edit source]

Videos[edit | edit source]

CDC Posted Video - Dr. John Iskander of CDC interviews Dr. Anthony Komaroff (Feb 17, 2016)
Carol Head of Solve ME/CFS, Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton and Morgan Fairchild
Dr. Lucinda Bateman of Bateman Horne Center discusses. (Mar 8, 2015)

Notable studies[edit | edit source]

  • 2015, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome versus Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease[18] (Full text)
  • 2015, Unintended Consequences of not Specifying Exclusionary Illnesses for Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease[19] (Full text)
  • 2016, Replacing Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Systemic Exercise Intolerance Disease Is Not the Way forward[20] (Full text)
  • 2016, Systemic exertion intolerance disease diagnostic criteria applied on an adolescent chronic fatigue syndrome cohort: evaluation of subgroup differences and prognostic utility[25] (Full text)
  • 2017, Patients diagnosed with Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome also fit systemic exertion intolerance disease criteria[26] (Full text)

Letters and commentary[edit | edit source]

In popular culture[edit | edit source]

A February 2016 comic strip referred to SEID and implied it is simply tiredness. See: Blondie comic

See also[edit | edit source]

Generally accepted criteria for diagnosing ME/CFS and ME[edit | edit source]

Learn more[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

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  15. 15.0 15.1 Jason, Leonard A.; Sunnquist, Madison; Gleason, Kristen; Fox, Pamela (2017), "Mistaken conclusions about systemic exercise intolerance disease being comparable to research case definitions of CFS: A rebuttal to Chu et al.", Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior, doi:10.1080/21641846.2017.1362780
  16. 16.0 16.1 Twisk, Frank N.M. (June 2018). "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease: Three Distinct Clinical Entities". Challenges. 9 (1): 19. doi:10.3390/challe9010019. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
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