Here's the table: [ATTACH]
In fact, I've just searched the trial protocol and there is no mention of post-exertional malaise or PEM *at all*. So anything related to symptoms...
No. All they have is a table with numbers of patients reporting "symptoms of PEM" at baseline and 52 weeks. I cannot find a suitable questionnaire...
PACE did not find that GET reduced PEM, because PEM was neither defined properly nor measured.
It depends what it is. If it's acupuncture, then sticking pins in skin/tissue probably does have a local endorphin effect and probably does...
None of you know what sort of editor I am, because not one of you has ever asked me to do any work for you. So please stop throwing rotten eggs...
I'm still here, guys. I can leave if you want me to...
I guess your 5 years trumps my 25 years then! I've been on both sides too. And I know what it's like to have howlers created out of what I have...
Thanks. :(
Editorish? Do you mean "clear"? ;)
Editor here would turn it round thus: If you use subjective outcomes, you will get uninterpretable results unless your trial is also double-blind...
Oh, but the problems *do* arise from lack of understanding of statistics and trial structure, because so much is reliant on psychology!
If you read the accounts in the pdf (Link to the post with pdf of 19 public statements), participants refer to the trial as "the PACE trials"...
I had that last autumn - it's called *anxiety*. It lasted for weeks. It was extremely uncomfortable and debilitating. Paralysed by fear. Wanted to...
No, it isn't. But who knows what went on at Kings. In another account, someone was told they were in the PACE trial 5 years after it had stopped....
I looked to see if anyone (of the dozens) involved in the trial had any expertise in exercise physiology - the only one I could find was on the...
For those who expressed an interest... (@Robert 1973 @Graham @Adrian @Trish @Esther12 @Luther Blissett @BruceInOz @Barry @Sasha @Jonathan Edwards...
Thanks @Tom Kindlon - Lois's account was the first one I posted on this thread. She's also been quite active in posting her account elsewhere, and...
If you look at Figure 2 in the main PACE paper, the London ME subgroup come out best on the main outcome measures (tho probably not significantly...
This tweet adds a bit more to the use of CFS/ME terminology: [MEDIA] I've quoted the relevant bit of the document here: SW says "Journals...
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