The abstract writes: "34 participants aged 13–18 years (25 ME/CFS, 23 controls)" Which is probably an error. 48 patients were invited to...
Strange that none of the variables measured (fatigue, sleep quality, pain, depression and anxiety, quality of life) predicted having ME/CFS at...
On Twitter, many interpret this study as showing a difference between Fukuda and ICC criteria but this would require a direct comparison between...
The authors write: Shouldn't the 1 be turned into a 2 because they looked for differences in the Fukud and ICC group separately?
Sounds interesting but there seems to be quite a lot of degrees of freedom of how the authors could have influenced the results of their...
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The original study also speaks of "post-exertional fatigue" rather than PEM. Activin B is a novel biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic...
Good that this replication study received support from the Latvian government. The study notes: [MEDIA]
Not sure if this would explain the difference between studies. The authors discuss this point as follows: Here's the main data. Seems like...
The main argument for the role of enteroviruses in ME are the past epidemics where such a connection was hypothesized. But those do not seem to...
Patients in Belgium and the Netherlands created this artwork for severe ME day [MEDIA]
I'm not from the UK haven't been involved in any preparation for the final NICE guideline release but I do hope that UK patient organizations are...
Perhaps I should submit the following, sarcastic letter Dear Sir/Madam, We read with great interest the manuscript by Hall et al. on strategies...
Some quotes from the article: "Learning positive ways to assist patients avoids professionals collapsing into therapeutic nihilism" "By learning...
It might be good to ask for patient representatives to be involved in the making of this guideline. You could refer to NICE or the Dutch guideline...
The lobbying gives the impression that people with conflicts of interest (COI) are trying to influence the process. ME/CFS charities likely want...
They did. But, as you pointed out, their trial was also blinded, which makes the use of subjective outcomes not a big problem.
I'm not very surprised that some committee members stepped down given the background of some. Hans Knoop did the same just before the Dutch...
Although the authors seem to report this correctly, I think it might be worth highlighting their conflict of interest: The second author is an...
Here's a summary of issues I found with this paper: 1) Between-group differences The authors base their conclusion on significance tests...
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