Lower levels of pyruvate than what? Healthy controls of the same age? Healthy controls of the same age and BMI?
@MelbME, @Nightsong has posted copies of the BASC-3 PRS survey on the BASC-3 thread. It is pretty obvious that a child with ME/CFS would score...
Thanks @Nightsong Yes. Here are some items from BASC-PRS A (A is for adolescent; C is for child) Complains of being sick when nothing is wrong...
I don't think that is true. There are still doctors trotting out 'stress' as a cause; I think that has been documented on the forum. There are...
But, we don't know that ME/CFS is complicated, it may be simple, it's just that we don't understand it yet. What specifically is complicated?...
@MelbME, it would be helpful to know if you have overall responsibility for the combined project, and for ensuring the participants and their...
Thanks for your replies @MelbME and your obviously good intent.
I found some slides with example items from the BASC-3 PRS. The bullet-pointed items are assessed by the parent, about their child. I think there...
There is more I could say, but I'll leave you to get on with your family. I hope, once you have had a chance to round up copies the surveys your...
Unfortunately, there is no good answer to what happens with the results of the personality/behaviour surveys. If the results, skewed as they will...
Thank you, I really appreciate you replying here. Let's not get sidetracked by questions about whether people with ME/CFS have a fear of being...
As I said, I don't think the ethics committees would have insisted on full surveys being applied - we see sub scales used on their own all the...
I think it is irrelevant to the concern I expressed whether anxiety and depression are thought of as physiological or mental health diseases....
The whole personality and behavioural field is far less sophisticated that it appears from a distance. I have been shocked at how ratings of...
Typically, symptoms such as fatigue and headaches and behaviours such as thinking about your health are taken to be evidence of somatization. I...
Not at all. The BASC scale has 4 sub scales, so you can just look at one or more sub scale if you want. We see that happening all the time....
Did you read the cortisol thread we started to answer your earlier question? It's not complete yet, but it shows that there have been many studies...
Frankly, that is even more frightening than having some aggregated finding that the cohort of young people are, on average, somaticising. So, is...
But, can't you see that the scales are collecting information that is hopelessly biased by the young people's chronic health condition? I think...
Sorry, I'm not understanding your reply. There currently doesn't seem to be any basis for believing that cortisol levels are abnormal in ME/CFS....
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