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Letters7 November 2000Outcomes of Lyme DiseaseNancy A. Shadick, MD, MPH, Robert A. Lew, PhD, and Matthew H. Liang, MD, MPHNancy A. Shadick, MD, MPHBrigham and Women's Hospital; Boston, MA 02115 (Shadick, Lew, Liang)Search for more papers by this author, Robert A. Lew, PhDBrigham and Women's Hospital; Boston, MA 02115 (Shadick, Lew, Liang)Search for more papers by this author, and Matthew H. Liang, MD, MPHBrigham and Women's Hospital; Boston, MA 02115 (Shadick, Lew, Liang)Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-133-9-200011070-00023 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail IN RESPONSE:We appreciate Dr. Prybylski's insights. He interprets the findings as we do but arrives at them by way of a different path. We agree that it is striking that 14 self-reported symptoms were more prevalent in patients with previous Lyme disease than in those without. Among the 26 symptoms about which patients were queried, we chose these 14 symptoms to highlight in tabular form because they were more prevalent. We similarly noted the striking deficits in health-related quality of life, as measured by the SF-36, among patients with Lyme disease and believe this to be one of the ...

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