That the study was statistically underpowered to detect years-long cases of QFS seems to be the most plausible argument behind the findings, and a...
The authors relied on the short form of the CDC CFS symptom inventory, which assesses 6 symptoms instead of the full form's 19. It was developed...
The leeway around clinical criteria does unfortunately reduce the certainty of a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. Ideally, fibromyalgia could be better...
Although the JCI’s article layout is unhelpful in that it describes the results before the methods of the study, the authors present their patient...
This seems to be a well-conducted study. An encouraging point is that the authors' experiment was successful with blood from both British and...
Thank you, I have corrected my post.
Interestingly, this small study on functional movement disorders (a subset of FND) does not support a psychiatric etiology for FMD -- especially...
Journal of Psychosomatic Research Volume 116, January 2019, Pages 10-16 Thierry Gendre, Guilhem Carle, Francine Mesratid, Cécile Hubsch, Thomas...
The minutes do note that he was a co-opted member. I have edited my post above with more information on the parts of the guideline that have been...
Indeed. It is interesting to see that Dr Charles Shepherd had to withdraw from all meetings (24 onwards) after his letter was published in the...
Minutes for meetings 29 and 30, in which, respectively, the analysis of PEM in GET trials and the recommendations were reviewed (including for...
The normal PCS is a Likert scale with 13 items scored from 0 ("not at all") to 4 ("all the time"). The total score ranges from 0-52 with >= 30...
The summary of the IOM report reads (p. 10, bolding mine): It is encouraging to note that progress already is being made in understanding the...
Multivariate and multivariable regression analysis helps estimate the contributions of various factors to an outcome, but the general rule...
Here is the discussion about the Kennedy pathway, which seems to relate to mitochondrial function (bolding mine). The Kennedy pathway is...
It seems interesting that they found disturbances with lipids and reduced cholines, given the similar results from Hanson's team. As for the...
This article misses the mark from adopting the biopsychosocial perspective of ME/CFS that reigns in the medical field. From the discussion at the...
Indeed. Dr van Campen’s point that clinical experience with the diagnostic criteria suffices to pose an accurate diagnosis of ME/CFS was her...
The Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients with Joint Hypermobility Show Larger Cerebral Blood Flow Reductions during...
I contacted the corresponding author by mail to clarify the role of 2-day CPETs in the study. They were not used to make (or rule out) the...
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