Reduced complexity of activity patterns in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: a case control study

Christopher Burton; Hans Knoop; Nikola Popovic; Michael Sharpe; Gijs Bleijenberg

doi:10.1186/1751-0759-3-7

Reduced complexity of activity patterns in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: a case control study

Christopher Burton, Hans Knoop, Nikola Popovic, Michael Sharpe, Gijs Bleijenberg

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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is an illness characterised by pervasive physical and mental fatigue without specific identified pathological changes. Many patients with CFS show reduced physical activity which, though quantifiable, has yielded little information to date. Nonlinear dynamic analysis of physiological data can be used to measure complexity in terms of dissimilarity within timescales and similarity across timescales. A reduction in these objective measures has been associated with disease and ageing. We aimed to test the hypothesis that activity patterns of patients with CFS would show reduced complexity compared to healthy controls.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7
Journal	BioPsychoSocial medicine
Volume	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/1751-0759-3-7
Publication status	Published - 2009

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