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Article: Digging for clues to fatigue. (multiple sclerosis fatigue study by Dr. Lauren Krupp)
- Article from:
- Inside MS
- Article date:
- September 22, 1989
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Digging for Clues to Fatigue
Dr. Lauren Krupp is onto a provocative thesis shared by other scientists working in her field: that there is some immune or neuroendocrine abnormality in people with multiple sclerosis that explains the overwhelming fatigue that afflicts 80% to 90% of them.
The Society grantee, who is assistant professor of neurology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, hopes ultimately to find biochemical changes in the blood or an alteration in the immune response that she can match up with a patient's degree of fatigue.
What is so special about MS fatigue? Dr. Krupp defines it as "a sense of tiredness, a lack of ...