Fatigue and general practitioners

Nijrolder and colleagues described the diagnoses they found during follow-up of patients presenting with fatigue in primary care.1 Our study (prospective, cross-sectional, within a one-year period2) was performed to determine accompanying reasons for the encounter, symptoms, diagnostic procedures, recent diagnoses and therapeutic procedures in patients suffering from fatigue in a primary care setting. Fatigue was associated with acute infectious diseases of the respiratory tract, anemia, mental disorders, heart and circulation problems and nephropathies.