TY - JOUR
AU1 - Reeves, William C.
AB - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and High Allostatic Load: Results From a Population-Based Case-Control Study in Georgia ELIZABETH M. MALONEY,DRPH, MS, ROUMIANA BONEVA, MD, PHD, URS M. NATER,PHD, AND WILLIAM C. REEVES,MD, MSC Objective: To confirm the association of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) with high allostatic load (AL) level, examine the association of subsyndromal CFS with AL level, and investigate the effect of depression on these relationships and the association of AL with functional impairment, fatigue, symptom severity, fatigue duration, and type of CFS onset. AL represents the cumulative physiologic effect of demands to adapt to stress. Methods: Population-based case-control study of 83 persons with CFS, 202 persons with insufficient symptoms or fatigue for CFS (ISF), and 109 well controls living in Georgia. Unconditional logistic regression was used to generate odds ratios (ORs) as measures of the association of AL with CFS. Results: Relative to well controls, each 1-point increase in allostatic load index (ALI) was associated with a 26% increase in likelihood of having CFS (OR 
 1.26, 95% Confidence Interval (CI) 
 1.00, 1.59). This association remained in the presence and absence of adjusted depression (OR 
 1.35, CI 
 1.07, 1.72; OR 
 1.35, CI 
 1.10, 1.65). 
TI - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and High Allostatic Load: Results From a Population-Based Case-Control Study in Georgia
JF - Psychosomatic Medicine
DO - 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181a4fea8
DA - 2009-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-high-allostatic-load-colon-results-from-a-DJE27PRXDI
SP - 549
EP - 556
VL - 71
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -