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BACKGROUND:

Up to three-quarters of patients with fatigue syndromes have comorbid mood or anxiety disorders, suggesting that chronic fatigue is a forme fruste of anxiety or depressive states.

AIMS:

To establish whether the association of chronic fatigue with psychological distress is causal or due to a common genetic or environmental factor.

METHOD:

Social and political tensions keep on fueling armed conflicts around the world. Although each conflict is the result of an individual context-specific mixture of interconnected factors, ethnicity appears to play a prominent and almost ubiquitous role in many of them. This overall state of affairs is likely to be exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change and in particular climate-related natural disasters. Ethnic divides might serve as predetermined conflict lines in case of rapidly emerging societal tensions arising from disruptive events like natural disasters.

In Syrië werden in maart 2011 vreedzame protesten tegen het regime van president Bashar al-Assad bloedig neergeslagen. Dit bleek het begin van een bijzonder gewelddadige burgeroorlog. Volgens schattingen van de Verenigde Naties zijn tot op heden meer dan 250.000 dodelijke slachtoffers gevallen.

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