Items for "Chronic fatigue syndrome"

Decreased Fractal Correlation in Diurnal Physical Activity in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

OBJECTIVES: Our objectives were to study the temporal correlation of physical activity time series in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) during normal daily life and to examine if it could identify the altered physical activity in these patients. METHODS: Fractal scaling exponents of diurnal and nocturnal physical activity time series in 10 CFS patients and 6 healthy control subjects (CON) were calculated by the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) and the wavelet transform modulus maxima (WTMM) method...

Keywords: Chronic fatigue syndrome, physical activity, detrended fluctuation analysis, wavelet transform modulus maxima method