Yes there were also reports of chronotropic intolerance in exercise tests of ME/CFS but those seem to disappear when controls were matched for...
Looks like a decent study and analysis to me. The Twitter thread is quite useful for understanding the paper. [MEDIA]
But unfortunate that they did not report the prevalence rate of ME/CFS. They only note that "Among infected participants meeting criteria for...
Do you have any views on the repetitive pattern in the standard errors of the results?...
Looks like they only included 5 ME/CFS patients and that they found no evidence of increased IgG reactivity to stool bacteria compared to...
This seems to be the main idea: "Recently, autoantibodies to the selenium transporter SELENOP (SELENOP-aAb) have been identified in Hashimoto’s...
" AUC, sensitivity, specifcity, and accuracy were reported in only some of the studies (n=35, 34.65%). Due to the limited number of studies that...
Think it was this one: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20047707/
"This year two Grants valued up to $25,000 are available, and four $5,000 Scholarships." So that makes $70,000 per year? Not bad for a New...
There have been quite a lot of improvements in the ME/CFS situation in Germany. There are now investment in research, the IQWiG report, political...
Quote from the paper: "Uplifts can be a focus of behavioral management [12] if the clinician collaboratively identifies with the patient...
Yes the means post-treatment are estimated means and accounting for the correlation of multiple measurements by the same person ('repeated...
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The pooled standard deviation is just for estimating the effect size, the Cohen's D. I'm far from an expert myself but really think these are...
Yes sounds like a good summary, thanks.
Perhaps you should write to the journal editors or ask the help of data sleuths such as Nick Brown or Health Nerd on Twitter.
How was this not picked up by peer review (or people tweeting enthusiastically about the study)...
Yes this can't be right. Must be an error of some kind. [ATTACH] It also doesn't make sense to report the standard error (SE) instead of the...
Van Gaal, the Dutch football trainer said during the world cup that he believed that "we can come an end". Another favourite that is frequently...
Thanks, changed it. A lot of my English grammar or spelling mistakes are the result of translating a Dutch word a bit too literally. Same with...
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