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[Fatigue in multiple sclerosis relapsing-remitting form]
M F Mendes1, H P Tilbery, S Balsimell
1Centro de Atendimento e Tratamento de Esclerose Múltipla, Departamento de Medicina, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Santa Casa de São Paulo, Brazil.
Arquivos De Neuro-Psiquiatria
|August 2, 2000
Abstract:
In 95 patients with the remitting-relapsing form of multiple sclerosis we investigated fatigue. All of them were evaluated with the Fatigue Severity Scale and we found it in 64 patients (67.4%). Gender, age, depression and fuctional incapacity was not predictive of fatigue occurrence, while anxiety and time of disease seems to be correlated with it. When we analysed the fatigue severity, a correlation between the EDSS and the increasing fatigue severity was found.