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Table 3 Patient demographics and employment status

From: Chronic fatigue syndrome after Giardia enteritis: clinical characteristics, disability and long-term sickness absence

Demographics

   Female, n (%)

44 (76)

   Age, mean, female

35.3

   Age, mean, male

29.2

Education

 

   < college degree, n (%)

14 (24)

   college degree and post graduate, n (%)

44 (76)

Employment status (n = 38)

   Working half-time, n (%)

13 (22)

   Sickness absence, n (%)

22 (38)

   Disability pension, n (%)

3 (5)

Education status (n = 20)

   Studies half-time, n (%)

6 (10)

   Sickness absence, n (%)

14 (24)