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Tracking post-infectious fatigue in clinic using routine Lab tests

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pediatrics, April 2016
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Title
Tracking post-infectious fatigue in clinic using routine Lab tests
Published in
BMC Pediatrics, April 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12887-016-0596-8
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Jeanna M. Harvey, Gordon Broderick, Alanna Bowie, Zachary M. Barnes, Ben Z. Katz, Maurice R. G. O’Gorman, Suzanne D. Vernon, Mary Ann Fletcher, Nancy G. Klimas, Renee Taylor

Abstract

While biomarkers for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are beginning to emerge they typically require a highly specialized clinical laboratory. We hypothesized that subsets of commonly measured laboratory markers used in combination could support the diagnosis of post-infectious CFS (PI-CFS) in adolescents following infectious mononucleosis (IM) and help determine who might develop persistence of symptoms. Routine clinical laboratory markers were collected prospectively in 301 mono-spot positive adolescents, 4 % of whom developed CFS (n = 13). At 6, 12, and 24 months post-diagnosis with IM, 59 standard tests were performed including metabolic profiling, liver enzyme panel, hormone profiles, complete blood count (CBC), differential white blood count (WBC), salivary cortisol, and urinalysis. Classification models separating PI-CFS from controls were constructed at each time point using stepwise subset selection. Lower ACTH levels at 6 months post-IM diagnosis were highly predictive of CFS (AUC p = 0.02). ACTH levels in CFS overlapped with healthy controls at 12 months, but again showed a trend towards a deficiency at 24 months. Conversely, estradiol levels depart significantly from normal at 12 months only to recover at 24 months (AUC p = 0.02). Finally, relative neutrophil count showed a significant departure from normal at 24 months in CFS (AUC p = 0.01). Expression of these markers evolved differently over time between groups. Preliminary results suggest that serial assessment of stress and sex hormones as well as the relative proportion of innate immune cells measured using standard clinical laboratory tests may support the diagnosis of PI-CFS in adolescents with IM.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 18%
Researcher 5 11%
Student > Bachelor 5 11%
Student > Postgraduate 4 9%
Other 3 7%
Other 10 22%
Unknown 10 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 7%
Psychology 3 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 7%
Other 10 22%
Unknown 10 22%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 February 2017.
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#1,717,814
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#2
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