Chronic fatigue syndrome is likely to be connected with an increased risk of having other physical illnesses. That’s the result of a study of the development of monozygotic and hetero-ovum twins.

Patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have to undergo complex medical tests to clarify whether they have any other illness. Mr.Aron, a scientist, along with his colleagues, compared twins, one of which was suffering from the CFS, while the other was healthy. The approach the scientists had selected allowed to exclude an influence of the environmental and hereditary factors.

It was found that chronic fatigue is characterized by some physical weaknesses: a pain in muscles, an irritated gut syndrome (IGS), a chronic pain in pelvis, and some other pain-accompanying illnesses. The major difference among the tested twins was monotored for those who suffered from the CGS. 50% of those who were ill with the CGS, were also diagnosed with the IGS, as compared with 5% of their “second part” of the pair who didn’t have chronic fatigue syndrome.

The reasons of these illnesses are still unknown, and it’s not an easy task to diagnose them for sure, even though advanced laboratory equipment is used or physical tests are carried out. Nervous stresses and pains, accompanying the illnesses, also catalyze the CGS development. These illnesses are supposed to mainly have psychological roots, rather than physical ones. Inter-dependence of different illnesses is a complicated process of interaction of biological and psychological parameters and environmental factors.

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