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Yes strange that IVIG had the lowest decrease in mean score but the highest percentage of improvers. The following figure is from their pre-print.

Sounds interesting. Let's hope it is relevant to ME/CFS and post-infectious illnesses.

"to answer the question, consistently completing the tasks is not a requirement for a valid effort test administration" But the problem is that the task likely required more effort for patients than controls. Lower completion rate is probably only a reflection of that, as was the proportion of...

There have been several local news articles where chronic pain patients report improvement with a neurostimulation device that unfortunately costs tens of thousands of euros. Some ME/CFS patients with chronic pain have asked about this too. Does anyone have experience with it or is anyone...

They found a prevalence of 3.1% for CFS (Fukuda-criteria) which is abnormally high. I think this could be the reason: "the FSS diagnosis was based on the responses to a questionnaire, without an assessment by a physician. The large sample size required for the current study implied that it was...

They needed 50 out of 832 available metabolites for a model to separate patients and controls. To me that suggest they had a really hard time separating the two groups.

The webinar itself is available here: https://www.zonmw.nl/nl/nieuws/terugblik-webinar-over-onderzoek-naar-mecvs

During the Webinar Rosmalen also answered to the question how Lifelines determines if someone has ME/CFS or not. This is a quickly translated transcript: Presenter: How are people in Lifelines determined to actually have ME/CFS? Rosmalen: As Sonja said, we start with a questionnaire and we...