Fatigue in sarcoidosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: differences in character and severity between diseases.

CONCLUSIONS: Both sarcoidosis and IPF patients suffer with fatigue, although sarcoidosis patients tended towards reporting more severe fatigue scores, suggesting a subgroup with severe fatigue. The fatigue experienced by the two groups appears to be different; sarcoidosis patients report greater frequency of mental fatigue whereas IPF patients appear to suffer exhaustion, potentially related to dyspnoea. Dyspnoea and sleepiness scores modeled the majority of fatigue in the IPF group, whereas no single factor was able to predict fatigue in sarcoidosis. PMID: 27537715 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis Source Type: research