In principle, I like the idea of looking very broadly for risk factors in medical records. But, we know how bad medical records can be. The...
This sort of a study (looking at medical records and predicting risks of future illness) is a goldmine for health insurers as well as for health...
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New thread for the study here: ME/CFS Health-related quality of life, 2024, Huseby Note also the tag for the Tjenesten og MEg study.
Looks like solid work from the Masters student and the results won't surprise anyone here. I wonder though whether this sort of information...
Link to the study that produced the raw data: Tjenesten og MEg | The health service and ME, Ongoing, Sintef FaFo
Posts on the topic of using deconditioned controls in ME/CFS trials have been moved to Using deconditioned people as controls
Post-infective and chronic fatigue syndromes precipitated by viral and non-viral pathogens: prospective cohort study, 2006, Hickie, Lloyd et al An...
I don't think that article was too black and white. It acknowledged the benefits of the therapy. But a number of things appear to have gone...
anisocytes - cells of different sizes. Normally, red blood cells are of similar sizes. poikilocytes - cells that are oddly shaped. zeta...
For sure. I did skim a few papers on the condition before posting the article, and a common symptom of a colloidal cyst is memory loss. The woman...
Yes. Although an exclusion was a BMI >30. The mean BMI was 21.6 in the controls and 25.4 in the FM participants.
I found this article interesting:...
It's a brilliant idea for a fundraiser and Physics Girl's partner looks to be smart and very dedicated. Unfortunately though he was saying quite a...
A very small study, but interesting. The findings might just be chance or a product of some bias in the preparation of the samples, and the...
It's great to see interest in ME/CFS in Romania. But this paper has some odd features. It is published in the Journal of Exercise Science and...
Worth noting this isn't cognitive behavioural therapy and it seems to be coming from different assumptions about cause. Having watched a...
I agree, if data from such people were used to calculate mean VO2max. If they did that, and didn't also do a calculation excluding those people,...
Issues worth thinking about. But, it's going to be a lot easier to get MP's interested in Long Covid. Not a lot of point having a 'pure' ME/CFS...
As well as an example of unreasonably extrapolating from personal experience, to produce inspiration porn. No, not everyone can 'enjoy an...
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