I suspect that this paper will be cited quite a lot by proponents of the psychosomatic approach to ME/CFS because it seems to confirm their views....
Here's an interesting quote from the discussion section of the paper: Abdominal pain is a cornerstone symptom for the IBS diagnosis. However,...
I was also wondering: if the selection criteria turned out to be more selective than initially thought, is it an option to have a second inclusion...
I haven't followed this closely so apologies if the DecodeME team has already tried this but a lot of ME/CFS patients might have gotten a...
Ah yes, thanks @Dolphin the response rate might turn out to be significantly lower than 9000 then.
Trying to get an overview, so please correct my reasoning if I made errors. The target recruitment is: DNA samples of 25.000 ME/CFS patients....
So you're arguing that mild patients were in worse PEM during the test compared to the more severe ME/CFS patients? I doubt that would have such a...
If the endothelial dysfunction that they found was part of the core pathology of ME/CFS, I would expect a correlation with the SF-36 physical...
They plan to recruit 66 patients of which 44 will be randomized to the Immunoadsorption group if I understand correctly. The other 22 will receive...
Interesting findings but it was rather disappointing that the abnormalities did not correlate well with disease severity measures. This make it...
So ME/CFS patients had higher levels of these microRNA's than healthy controls while FM patients had lower levels than healthy controls....
It doesn't seem like they took the feedback/comments into account in the final report. I don't see any important changes. Has anyone spotted some?...
Looks like useful work. Hope he will continue to study ME/CFS.
Maybe it is good that they document this themselves otherwise people in the future wouldn't believe it was once this bad? Quote from the paper:...
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Supplementary figure gives the results of all health outcomes/diagnoses in one graph. It does look that CFS stands out a bit: [ATTACH]
Bit disappointing that the authors included CFS in the mental diagnosis group: [ATTACH]
Why does the title say "A critical investigation"? This seem like the exact opposite with the attempt to get a short section in trashy newspapers....
Agree 4 hours is a lot.
If they think a new paradigm is needed, why are they digging up the old one?
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