title: Nonrestorative sleep and symptoms after a febrile illness in patients with fibrositis and chronic fatigue syndromes.
abstract: This review summarizes the physiologic and clinical evidence that shows nonrestorative sleep to be associated with chronic fatigue and diffuse myalgia after a flulike illness. Such a febrile illness may trigger alteration in sleep-wake brain and immune functions in patients with fibrositis or chronic fatigue syndromes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Moldofsky
mesh_terms: D015673:Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005334:Fever / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005356:Fibromyalgia / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007107:Immune System / Q000503:physiopathology; D007239:Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology; D010146:Pain; D012890:Sleep; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / Q000150:complications; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology