A LEMON a Day Keeps Fatigue Away – The ABCDE of Fatigue

Fatigue is a common symptom in clinical medicine. The complex and multifaceted etiopathogenesis of fatigue is a challenge for the differential diagnosis and management of fatigue. This brief communication shares two simple mnemonics – LEMON and ABCDE – which help in the evaluation of fatigue. These...

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Autores principales: Kalra, Sanjay, Sahay, Rakesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Touch Medical Media 2018
Materias:
Diabetes
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5954589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29922346
http://dx.doi.org/10.17925/EE.2018.14.1.15
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description Fatigue is a common symptom in clinical medicine. The complex and multifaceted etiopathogenesis of fatigue is a challenge for the differential diagnosis and management of fatigue. This brief communication shares two simple mnemonics – LEMON and ABCDE – which help in the evaluation of fatigue. These frameworks are as relevant to endocrinology and diabetes as to general practice. The mnemonic LEMON stands for lifestyle, endocrine, medical/metabolic, observer (physician) and nutrition-related factors which may cause fatigue; ABCDE lists the aetiology of fatigue in three columns related to physiological/nutritional, psychosocial and biomedical causes (each column includes one cause and how this relates to the ABCDE rubric).
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spelling pubmed-59545892018-06-19 A LEMON a Day Keeps Fatigue Away – The ABCDE of Fatigue Kalra, Sanjay Sahay, Rakesh Eur Endocrinol Diabetes Fatigue is a common symptom in clinical medicine. The complex and multifaceted etiopathogenesis of fatigue is a challenge for the differential diagnosis and management of fatigue. This brief communication shares two simple mnemonics – LEMON and ABCDE – which help in the evaluation of fatigue. These frameworks are as relevant to endocrinology and diabetes as to general practice. The mnemonic LEMON stands for lifestyle, endocrine, medical/metabolic, observer (physician) and nutrition-related factors which may cause fatigue; ABCDE lists the aetiology of fatigue in three columns related to physiological/nutritional, psychosocial and biomedical causes (each column includes one cause and how this relates to the ABCDE rubric). Touch Medical Media 2018-04 2018-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5954589/ /pubmed/29922346 http://dx.doi.org/10.17925/EE.2018.14.1.15 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, adaptation and reproduction provided the original author(s) and source are given appropriate credit. © The Authors 2018. Authorship: All named authors meet the criteria of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors for authorship for this manuscript, take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole and have given final approval for the version to be published. Review Process: This article is a short opinion piece and has not been submitted to external peer reviewers but was reviewed for accuracy by the editorial board before publication.
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