title: Chronic fatigue syndrome: an endocrine disease off limits for endocrinologists?
abstract: Endocrinologists were not included in the multidisciplinary working groups that prepared two recent reports on chronic fatigue syndrome, despite its unequalled clinical overlap with Addison's disease, which is a classic endocrine disorder. The failure to include at least one endocrinologist in those panels may explain why in their extensive reports there is not a single word about the 42 clinical features that chronic fatigue syndrome shares with Addison's disease, including all the signs and symptoms listed in the case definition of this syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Retired Medical Inspector of the Italian State Railways, Fortaleza, Brazil. baschetti@baydenet.com.br
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baschetti
mesh_terms: D000224:Addison Disease / Q000145:classification*; D015673:Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D005938:Glucocorticoids