Speakers include Unger, Systrom, Bateman, Ed Yong, Lacerda, Bergquist, Hanson, and Scheibenbogen amongst others.
They should just report the effect size, which will likely be around than 0.15 standard deviations which is very small. Hard to take this...
Just noticed that in their discussion section they try to justify their interpretation as follows: "Research completed since we started this...
The difference for the primary outcome was 0.03 on the PROPr questionnaire which apparently has a scale from -0.22 to 1. Table 2 shows that the...
As far as I can see Mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) capacity was not significantly different in the 15 ME/CFS patients compared...
There was an earlier trial where they tested live and telephone CBSM for ME/CFS. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5270375/
Ah yes I see now. Strange decision.
The paper does write: "Recorded signals included electrocardiogram, blood pressure, respiratory movement, end-tidal CO2, respiratory rate, and...
Looks like an interesting study with a large sample sizes and multiple illnesses. But you can read the results two-ways: the questionnaires...
Then there is the issue that they lumped everything together, regardless of the content of the CBT. One is mindfullness based cognitive therapy,...
The review also ignored objective outcomes and long-term results of for example the PACE trials which all found no effect. Also frustrating that...
Here's their risk of bias assessment of fatigue, post-treatment taken from the supplementary material: [ATTACH] I don't understand why some...
I noticed that in some of the trials they included, only a minority of patients met CFS criteria. I only read the review once but could not find...
It does highlight that some patients are so severe that they cannot physically tolerate the presence of others even though mentally they feel...
Thanks for posting @Wyva and @Andy I think they got funding from the Horizon Europe call 'Relationship between infections and non-communicable...
Haven't looked into the ALS example closely, but I think there is a big risk of presenting a medication as more plausible/promising than it really is.
For anyone struggling (like me) to find the sample size: A total of eight ME/CFS patients (six female (F) and two male (M); median age, 33...
These suggests that they did not see PEM in their deconditioned participants and that the difference with ME/CFS was clear.
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This press release by their university gives some brief info: All experiments, meals, and leisure activities took place lying down. Participants...
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