Free full text: https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/IMCJMS/article/view/45286 Disappointing they didn't use a double-blind design....
Yes, good points. But my basic point was that somebody with ME/CFS could rate as more difficult on average what happened, compared to a healthy...
I am not familiar with these questionnaires. But with ME/CFS one can be less well able to deal with stress of lots of types. So it seems possible...
Why would it be ruled out? I don't believe it's a strict exclusion and indeed different forms of dysautonomia seem to be common in the condition
I'm not sure that it has been mentioned in this thread that they did also write to people:
Source: Journal of Affective Disorders Preprint Date: January 29, 2020 URL:...
I have a vague recollection that for another one of these patients (one that went to Spain?) it was mentioned that there was a 50% chance that it...
2020 IACFS/ME Conference Deadline for Research Abstract Submission/ Professional Workshop Proposals Extended to 2/ 21/ 2020! The DEADLINE for...
A lot if not most epidemiological research in the UK involved biopsychosocial researchers. The "wrong sort" of epidemiological research can cause...
Around 70% of adolescents who satisfied CFS criteria at 6 months after infectious mononucleosis (a.k.a. glandular fever or mono) didn't satisfy...
Leonard Jason did a long-term follow-up of the Chicago adult prevalence study. Diagnoses seem to be more stable than with the CDC study, though I...
This paper is old but would have collated responses in papers published before it was finalised:...
From: Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks Source: Canterbury Christ Church University Date: April 2019; online january 6, 2020 URL:...
From: Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks Source: Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden) Date: January 23, 2020 URL:...
On the point about the prevalence rate possibly being inflated due to bias in who took part: Only 2 of the participants who were diagnosed with...
Reeves et al (2007), a CDC study, found a prevalence of 2.54%. However, it used the so-called empiric criteria for CFS (Reeves et al 2005), which...
Another CDC paper: https://bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2377-4-6 Sleep assessment in a population-based study of chronic...
https://hqlo.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1477-7525-1-49 https://hqlo.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1477-7525-1-49/tables/5 [ATTACH]...
I remember it came out that the CDC used a positive Romberg test as an exclusion. I think like you suggest they may have been too willing to...
I'd like to share this on Facebook. Is that OK? I could post a link to here but think more people would read it if the text was posted. Of course,...
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