We have split off posts primarily about sex ratios to a new discussion thread dedicated to that topic: ME/CFS Epidemiology - sex ratios, female...
There is the interchangeability of the ME and CFS diagnoses, and the varying popularities of the two diagnoses over time. It seems likely to me...
The English translation is often pretty loose. There's obviously a lot of jibes and jokes where you need a bit of German background, but so many...
This is a fantastic initiative, I hope it will help to ensure that there is safe professional psychological support for people with ME/CFS and...
Not sure if that is a question, but no, no posts were moved but I did another post on that topic here: ME Epidemiology - prevalence, peak ages of...
Abstract Background Few longitudinal studies available characterize long COVID outcomes out to 24 months, especially in people with nonsevere...
On the idea that most people improve and even recover in the first two years: 43 Servier, C., Porcher, R., Pane, I., Ravaud, P. & Tran, V.T....
Abstract Objectives: We aimed to identify trajectories of the evolution of post-COVID-19 condition, up to 2 years after symptom onset. Methods:...
Results Just because gender ratios are top of my mind at the moment: I do think the tendency for women to be in public facing roles with a high...
Introduction Method
From a discussion on another thread about a claimed sex ratio in ME/CFS of 5 to 1: I know the issue of sex ratios issue isn't very important in...
So as to not take the thread off topic, I'll address the arguments about the sex ratio used in this paper on the epidemiology discussion thread....
Copied post But we can't assume that the voluntary response to a mail-in study is the same as population prevalences. See this study for...
But we can't assume that the voluntary response to a mail-in study is the same as population prevalences. See this study for example. Men might...
Posts copied from Replicated blood-based biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis not explicable by inactivity, 2024, Beentjes, Ponting et al...
Five to one is a very high ratio. Yes, it says 'up to five-to-one', which covers a lot of ground, but still. I don't think it gives an accurate...
Yes, and even then, it only suggests that rather than shows it, with there not being any clear biomarker. There is not yet any smoking gun here.
I agree Kitty. That first paragraph of the paper seemed to me to be giving the question of physical inactivity undue weight. It also seemed to...
Not sure I can add much to @rvallee's spot-on analysis. But 'promising'? Pretty much everyone with a disease like ME/CFS works out a version of...
Is that a typo in the abstract? Should it be Of 3,237 traits considered, ME status restricted activity had a significant effect on only one, via...
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