Weather sensitivity

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Weather sensitivity refers to symptom exacerbation in extremes of temperature or changes in weather.

Prevalence[edit | edit source]

  • In a 2001 Belgian study, 53.9% of patients meeting the Fukuda criteria and 58.7% of patients meeting the Holmes criteria, in a cohort of 2073 CFS patients, reported weather sensitivity.[1]

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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.
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