Titre : | Post-Lyme borreliosis syndrome : a meta-analysis of reported symptoms. Commentary. (2005) |
Auteurs : | CAIRNS (Victoria) : DEU. Consultant Statistician. Kronberg. ; GODWIN (Jon) : GBR. Clinical Trial Service Unit. University of Oxford. Rdb. Roosevelt Drive. Oxford. ; HASSETT (Afton-L) / disc. : USA. Department of Psychiatry. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. New Brunswick. NJ. ; SIGAL (Leonard-H) / disc. : USA. Department of Pediatrics. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. New Brunswick. NJ. ; University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Department of Medicine. New Brunswick. NJ. USA |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | International journal of epidemiology (vol. 34, n° 6, 2005) |
Pagination : | 1340-1347 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Bactériose ; Infection ; Douleur ; Fatigue ; Epidémiologie ; Prévalence ; Homme |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS nKcR0x41. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background : This meta-analysis compares the prevalence of fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, and neurocognitive difficulties in patients who have had Lyme borreliosis (LB) and control subjects without LB. Methods : Titles and abstracts in PubMed were reviewed for studies with data on the symptoms listed above that compared patients who had had LB with controls from the general population. Five studies with 504 patients and 530 controls were included in the meta-analysis. Results : The prevalence of symptoms was significantly higher in the LB patients, with P-values between |