This refers to a study that is only available in Chinese: Li J, Xie J, Pan Z, Guo X, Li Y, Fu R. [Chronic fatigue syndrome treated with...
The paper writes: "The paradox of how JH is a risk factor for developing ME/CFS but does not appear to change the mode of onset or...
27 patients in each group is small so that the study was only powered to detect large effects. There was also a loss of power because they...
The article writes: "although “of some sort” correctly suggests a lack of exact clarity as to the elements at the root of physical symptoms, its...
This paper explains: C4a is generated from the cleavage of the native complement protein C4 via the classical and lectin pathways. In the...
This 2015 study by the German team of Scheibenbogen reported: "Deficiency of MBL was found in 15% of the CFS patients in contrast to 6% in a...
There was a recent Austrian study (Lutz et al. 2021) that had a similar design (report the results of blood tests in a large group of ME/CFS...
Don't understand the figures for medication use in table 1. How come the numbers (n) are so low but the percentages between brackets are so high?...
Looks like a useful paper with data from 250 women that meet Fukuda and Canadian criteria. The full dataset has been made available in the...
The response rate was only 13% so the data may not be representative. They used the 11-item Chalder Fatigue Scale but found no difference between...
These are the six interventions they looked at: [ATTACH] They mostly looked at evidence from RCT's to see if outcomes favored the control instead...
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Some discussion on the importance of blinding in regard to psychedelics in psychiatry: [MEDIA]
I don't have much trust in the judgement of Gotzsche [MEDIA]
Does anyone know of long covid groups that focus on advocacy at the European level?
I suppose that consultant was David Streeten? They published a paper in 1998 that claimed reduced blood volume in CFS patients but the study had...
Yes, it seems that the authors defined the group with persistent symptoms as anyone reporting any symptom, regardless of severity. they write:...
From what I remember there haven't been any studies that showed a reduced total blood volume in ME/CFS, so I find it rather unfortunate that this...
Excellent, thanks!
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