The role of environmental factors in medically unexplained symptoms and related syndromes: conference summary and recommendations.

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• Alternative Title:
  Environ Health Perspect
• Personal Author:
  Kipen, Howard M ; Fiedler, Nancy
• Description:
  This monograph of peer-reviewed articles is based on presentations at the conference "Environmental Factors in Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms and Related Syndromes" held 10-12 January 2001 in Piscataway, New Jersey, USA. The purpose of the conference was to determine research priorities for elucidating the role of environmental factors in medically unexplained symptoms and symptom syndromes. These include conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivities, sick building syndrome, Gulf War illness, and the like. Approximately 1 1/2 days were devoted to plenary talks and 1 day was devoted to break-out sessions to discuss epidemiologic, psychosocial, and experimental research. Recommendations were made for a series of epidemiologic, psychosocial, and experimental research approaches, with acknowledgment that nosology issues are clearly fundamental to advancing understanding of these conditions.
• Subjects:
  Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollutants Epidemiologic Studies Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic Humans Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Persian Gulf Syndrome Research Design Syndrome
• Source:
  Environ Health Perspect. 110(Suppl 4):591-595.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  ES05022/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States ; R01 0H03691/PHS HHS/United States ; U50CCU214463/CC/ODCDC CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  110
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:12f071aaf32301e03c798ba9b01fb5130975aa70e0b6eabe82cfb4fde187f7bd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/31003/cdc_31003_DS1.pdf
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