{"id":31432,"date":"2020-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/19\/most-youth-with-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-undiagnosed\/"},"modified":"2020-02-20T17:10:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T17:10:11","slug":"most-youth-with-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-undiagnosed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/19\/most-youth-with-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-undiagnosed\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Youth With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Undiagnosed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Racial disparity seen with higher prevalence and more undiagnosed cases in minorities<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Feb. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS) remains largely undiagnosed in youth, according to a study published online Jan. 23 in the <i>Child &#038; Youth Care Forum<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard A. Jason, Ph.D., from DePaul University in Chicago, and colleagues assessed the prevalence of pediatric ME\/CFS from an ethnically and sociodemographically diverse community-based random sample of 10,119 youth (aged 5 to 17 years) from 5,622 households.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that the prevalence of pediatric ME\/CFS was 0.75 percent. A higher percentage of those diagnosed were African-American and Latinx versus Caucasian. Of the youth diagnosed with ME\/CFS based on the screening, less than 5 percent had been previously diagnosed. African-American and Latinx youth were twice as likely to have undiagnosed ME\/CFS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our finding that most youth with ME\/CFS have not been previously diagnosed is comparable to findings in adults,&#8221; a coauthor said in a statement. &#8220;We definitely need better ways to identify people with this illness and to develop effective interventions for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10566-019-09543-3\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abstract\/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial disparity seen with higher prevalence and more undiagnosed cases in minorities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":31449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-31432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}