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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

Women with ME tend to have more symptoms than men, study suggests

Stethoscope on laptop
Scientists are still working to understand the causes of ME/CFS, although there is some evidence that infections can trigger the condition. Photograph: Brian Jackson/Alamy

Women with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) tend to have more symptoms than men and are more likely to develop increasingly severe symptoms over time, according to initial results from a major study.

It is already known that women are at higher risk of CFS, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), and the latest study, called DecodeME, provides new insights into how their experience differs from men. The study found that women who have ME/CFS for more than 10 years are more likely to experience increasingly severe symptoms as they age.

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