There's definitely a lot of bad science / poor papers in this field, and that's largely due to the nature of the illness, being somewhat poorly defined, heterogeneous, and misunderstood. Conflation with normal fatigue is obviously a clear problem and results in myriad terrible papers from people...
Interesting study and a nice, short paper showing that cortisol differences are minor, but there is evidence of low then rising morning cortisol in the LC-ME/CFS group.
Seems they haven't controlled for wake time, which is a weakness.
Also interesting to note the high prevalence of HIV in all...
At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, I believe those with life-changing disability and illness due to long covid are at risk of having their illness watered down with prevalence rates such as these, which are based on the very lax WHO definiton of long covid (any lingering (>2 months)...
Perhaps worth moving this thread to avoid any confusion. This doesn't have anything to do with covid 19 per se. It just happens to be from Pretorius and Kell.
I did wonder whether this journal was actually peer-reviewed, as I wasn't aware NIHR had their own journals — but it is. So it's unlikely these results will be written up elsewhere.
A 166-page report, in an NIHR journal. How strange.
It seems they've not bothered to plot up the results for the primary outcome and instead have presented the results in a table.
Just a reminder, or for those that had missed it: I wrote about BACME and the dysregulation 'model' here: https://domsalisbury.github.io/mecfs/bacme_dysregulation/
https://bacme.info/event/severe-and-very-severe-me-cfs-workshop/
Upcoming event: Severe and Very Severe ME/CFS workshop
Facilitated by Dr Melissa Sargaison (specialist physician and BACME Board member), Ceri Rutter (BACME PPI Lead) Anna Gregorowski (Consultant Nurse and BACME Chair); Sue...
Like MyChart, I suspect MyCare is another version of a patient portal that some trusts are using. But no, in my case it is neither of these and it's just called the patient portal. It seems my issue is not going to apply to others because it's not the same software system / app.
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