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I think this will vary greatly based on university and the institute, as the building mass and ventilation will have vastly different standards. Not to mention class size. When I started 60 persons had been taken up for a bachelor's degree that only had 15 spots. As one could guess class room...

Today in Khrono there is an article about the record high sick leave in Norway. On average in universities sick leave has increased 20% from 2021 to 2022. Amongst other reasons due to "covid and long term effects of covid". In Norway as a whole 2022 had the highest amount of sick leave since...

This definition of PEM seems more like PE fatigue to me:

Rest assured as we have been told several times that after a study is published its weaknesses and limitations will be clearly stated and if the methodology is bad it could never be misused in any way! Fitting for April's fools, really. (Although this was not said about this particular study...

I haven't read the study, but when the first author says in the tweet "PCR and antigen testing have been performed at two timepoints" made me believe they had taken PCR and antigen tests, and also did the proxy testing by asking about smell/taste.

Here is one from twitter: Siri Ann Mauseth: The methodology has weaknesses. To use PCR and antibody tets have several pitfalls. Such as infected being labeled as controls https://nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2 Joel Selvakumar: There are clearly weaknesses - but I don't know if I agree...

This has been pointed out to them. Together with studies on how antibodies are not a good indicator of previous covid infection.

I am so sick of this.

Why should they when "leading experts" don't :banghead: I'm still annoyed about how Wyller got a grant to study adolescents with CFS, and then when the music study came out it was about adolescents with CF that may go on to develop CFS.. :confused:

For some of us symptoms are at their best with menses ;) Menses and follicular phase are usually when I function the best. I know others who say the same, but also here there is a social constraint that you shouldn't talk about it, and the added "women are at their worst with menses!" social...

In Norway it takes ~five years on average to get an endometriosis diagnosis. I don't doubt many are misdiagnosed with something else along the way. And chronic fatigue gets conflated with chronic fatigue syndrome.

My ferritin levels have never been an issue. Though I want to point out that ferritin reference ranges have been based on "expert opinion" and some argue the lowest range is too low. Quoting myself from another thread where ferritin levels were discussed:

A post containing tweets on the topic of a seminar held in Oslo on LC/ME/CFS has been moved to the seminar's own thread on the forum: Norway: Article about ME seminar with security

I hope it works out for you. Frustrating how it is so important to avoid a single person not being worthy of support receiving it in any form rather than making support systems easily available to those who could benefit from them.

Someone has shared the invitation, speakers and participants following a FOI request on twitter:

When I had timeseries metabolome data there were large variation from measurement to measurement on a lot of the compounds (in total we had 1700+), not difficult to find a difference between two groups by chance. Data was then measured every two, four or ten weeks. We even had near perfect...

Haven't read the study, but lipids can be changed by lipids in the diet. Things like increasing intake of pre-made foods after becoming ill could contribute to differences between patients and controls as sources of fat in these foods could be different than what is used when cooking onesself...

12 weeks sounds like a short timeframe. I'm assuming potential participants have normal (that is to say, low) intake of omega-3 fatty acids, so the first 4-8 weeks would be an increasing level of omega-3's in tissue and then only a month at saturation. Depending on dosage of course, which I am...

Sick leave in Norway has increasingly been caused by "unspecified fatigue", potentially being after effects of covid infection. https://www.nav.no/no/nav-og-samfunn/statistikk/sykefravar-statistikk/nyheter/korona-preger-fortsatt-sykefravaeret (In Norwegian)

A great opinion piece by associate professor in Naturfag (biology) at NTNU and previous science journalist at NRK (our national broadcaster) on the study: Media sviktar samfunnsrolle i studie om alternativ behandling The media fails to play a role in society in a study on alternative treatment...