The authors also refer to a fibromyalgia study where 75% of self-reported cases did not meet diagnostic criteria: Reference 14 seems to be a...
This suggests the agreement between self-reported ME/CFS and ME/CFS as assessed by surveys such as de DePaul Symptom Questionnaires was not very...
The normal threshold for statistical significant in GWAS is 5 x 10^-8. Because the sample size here was very low (only 695 PTLDS cases), the...
This is where the data came from: But for ME/CFS it seems that they used questionable ICD codes: ICD-10-CM R53.82 refers to 'Chronic fatigue,...
Paper from 2016 by the Hanson group. I wanted to post it here because it had a large sample size (large for ME/CFS research, probably small for...
From what I remember it didn't not have very problematic statements regarding GET/CBT or psychosomatic theories. But it was also not very precise...
Would be interesting to see the results of the ME/CFS groups combined (mild-moderate and severe) versus controls. I couldn't easily find that in...
These arguments from the response by Joanna Moncrieff also make sense: Challenging the new hype about antidepressants | Joanna Moncrieff
Happen to be reading this older 2018 study, great to see that there's already a S4ME thread for it. Although this meta-analysis found an effect,...
What is his contribution exactly?
Posted a summary thread about this article here: [MEDIA] https://bsky.app/profile/mecfsskeptic.bsky.social/post/3lhvwpusjjh2c
It also writes: So they aim to find an effect of 1.5/2.2 = 0.68 standard deviations. That seems unrealistically large.
Here's how they describe the intervention. It looks like pacing but in rehabilitation and CBT-context. I doubt it will be successful. IMHO pacing...
Seems to be very little explanation of what the drug is.
So changing one data point makes the result statistically insignificant? Whatever the right version of the dataset, it's clear that these results...
Agree it looks like more than one dot to me. I suspect it's easier to make a mistake in the text and p-value calculation than plot a wrong data...
These seem to be the main results for EBV. Notable that the seniors had similarly elevated viral load. So perhaps it was mostly the control group...
Perhaps a stupid question but isn't it more likely that menstruation caused symptoms in addition to ME/CFS symptoms, rather than exacerbating...
Instead of skin biopsies, they used a non-invasive method that looks at the nerves in the eye (in vivo corneal confocal microscopy). They found...
it seems that the intervention was something that was made up, together with people living with Long Covid. Not sure why this idea would warrant...
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