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Epidemiology of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome
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== Sex == {{Main article | page_name =Sex differences in myalgic encephalomyelitis}} [[File:Age and Gender distribution.png|thumb|Age and gender distribution of ME/CFS.<ref name="bakken2014" />]] Numerous studies have found the rates of ME/CFS to be substantially higher in adult women than in men, with estimates ranging from 75-85%.<ref name="Jason, 1999" /><ref name="bakken2014" /><ref name="Gunn1993">{{Cite book | title = Ciba Foundation Symposium 173 β Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | last = Gunn | first = Walter| publisher = | year = 1993|isbn=|location= | pages = |chapter=Epidemiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Centers for Disease Control Study}}</ref> A higher preponderance of women has also been noted in numerous [[List of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome outbreaks|outbreaks]] including [[1934 Los Angeles atypical polio outbreak|Los Angeles]], [[Akureyri]], [[1953 Maryland outbreak|Rockville, MD]], [[1955 Royal Free Hospital outbreak|Royal Free Hospital]], and [[1956 Punta Gorda outbreak|Punta Gorda, Florida]].<ref name="Parish1978">{{Cite journal | last = Parish | first = JG | date = 1978 | title = Early outbreaks of 'epidemic neuromyasthenia'| url = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/370810|journal=Postgraduate Medical Journal|volume=54 | pages = 711-7|via= | author-link = Gordon Parish|access-date=}}</ref><ref name="Shelokov, 1957">{{Cite journal | last = Shelokov | first1 = Alexis | author-link1 = Alexis Shelokov | last2 = Habel | first2 = Karl | authorlink2 = Karl Habel | last3 = Verder | first3 = Elizabeth | authorlink3 = Elizabeth Verder | last4 = Welsh | first4 = William | authorlink4 = William Welsh | title = Epidemic Neuromyasthenia β An Outbreak of Poliomyelitis-like Illness in Student Nurses | journal =New England Journal of Medicine | volume = | issue = 257 | page = 345-355 | date = August 1957 | doi = 10.1056/NEJM195708222570801 }}</ref><ref name="Gilliam, 1936-38">{{Cite journal | last = Gilliam | first1 = A.G. | authorlink = Alexander Gilliam | title = Epidemiological Study Of An Epidemic, Diagnosed As Poliomyelitis, Occurring Among The Personnel Of The Los Angeles County General Hospital During The Summer Of 1934 | journal =Public health bulletin, 1936-1938 | volume = | issue = | page = 231-240 | date = 1938 | pmid = | url = http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015022082260;view=1up;seq=617 |doi= | pages = | pmc = | quote = |access-date=|via=}}</ref><ref name="Acheson, 1959">{{Cite journal | last = Acheson | first1 = E.D. | authorlink =Donald Acheson | title = The Clinical Syndrome Variously Called Benign Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Iceland Disease and Epidemic Neuromyasthenia | journal =American Journal of Medicine | volume = 26 | issue = 4 | page = 569β595 | date = 1959 | pmid = | url = http://www.name-us.org/defintionspages/DefinitionsArticles/Acheson1959.pdf | pages=|chapter=|edition=|isbn=}}</ref><ref name="Poskanzer, 1957">{{Cite journal | last = Poskanzer | first1 = David C. | author-link1 = David Pskanzer | last2 = Henderson | first2 = Donald A. | authorlink2 = Donald Henderson | last3 = Kunkle | first3 = E. Charles | authorlink3 = | last4 = Kalter | first4 = Seymour S. | authorlink4 = | last5 = Clement | first5 = Walter B. | authorlink5 = | last6 = Bond | first6 = James O. | author-link6 = | title = Epidemic Neuromyasthenia β An Outbreak in Punta Gorda, Florida | journal =New England Journal of Medicine | volume = | issue = 257 | page = 356-364 | date = 1957 | pmid = 13464939 | doi = 10.1056/NEJM195708222570802| url = http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM195708222570802 }}</ref><ref name="PMC1962472">{{Cite journal | date = 1957-10-19 | title = An Outbreak of Encephalomyelitis in the Royal Free Hospital Group, London, in 1955| url = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1962472/|journal=British Medical Journal|volume=2|issue=5050 | pages = 895β904|issn=0007-1447|pmc=1962472|pmid=13472002}}</ref><ref name="Sigurdsson1950">{{Cite journal| url = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14771044 | title = A disease epidemic in Iceland simulating poliomyelitis | last = Sigurdsson | first = B | authorlink = BjΓΆrn Sigurdsson | date = September 1950|journal=American Journal of Hygiene|volume=52 | pages = 222-38|via=}}</ref> In some cases, this was thought to do with the occupational hazard of nursing, but this female-skewed sex ratio was also found in several outbreaks among the general population. However, in other outbreaks, including the 1949-1953 [[1949-53 Adelaide outbreak|Adelaide]] outbreak and an outbreak in [[1955 North of England outbreak|northern England in 1955]], a 1:1 gender ratio was reported.<ref name="Parish1978" /> In [[1948-49 Akureyri outbreak|Akureyri]], a significantly higher incidence rate was found among adult women but not in patients under twenty.<ref name="Sigurdsson1950" />
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