This site is intended for healthcare professionals

Go to /sign-in page

You can view 5 more pages before signing in

Prevalence

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

Authoring team

Fatigue is one of the most common presenting symptoms to a general practitioner (main complaint of 5-10% of patients and a co-occuring symptom in a further 5-10%) (1). However, this is the tip of the iceberg:

  • 16% of adults report lassitude in the last 2 weeks
  • at any given time, 1 in every 5 people experience unusual tiredness and 1 in 10 suffer prolonged fatigue (2)
  • it can be seen at any age but less frequently in the very young and old
  • women experience tiredness twice as much as in men (1)
  • there is an increased incidence of chronic disease in patients presenting with fatigue than among other patients (3).

Reference:

Create an account to add page annotations

Annotations allow you to add information to this page that would be handy to have on hand during a consultation. E.g. a website or number. This information will always show when you visit this page.