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    Associations Between Psychological and Immunological Variables in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, 2021, Raanes & Stiles

    Undergraduate stats class was full of examples such as those below: sadly it seems very few BPS researchers get past this level more hilarious examples at link - Spurious Correlations (tylervigen.com)
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    Covid-19 vaccines and vaccinations

    Wow. Got booster last night. Pfizer - previous innoculations both AZ. Person administering was very pleased to tell me that recent info was that this combination provides 93% protection. I didn't burst her bubble. No wonder people think they are invincible.
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    Covid-19 vaccines and vaccinations

    Really struggle with booster efficiency being touted as 70 to 75% if you have had AZ for both previous jags. Could be much lower
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    Interplay between genetics and lifestyle on pain susceptibility in women with fibromyalgia: The al-Ándalus project, 2021, Estévez-López et al

    Thanks for the clarification - obviously I am confused and early morning is not my best time for sussing anything . It has been a long night! Can you further enlighten me ? When a gene multi tasks and does have more than 1 role , do we know fully what it is responding to -is this the RS...
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    Is Central Sensitisation the Missing Link of Persisting Symptoms after COVID-19 Infection?, 2021, Goudman et al

    Similar to FND which seems to be going down the tick box symptom list: the fact that many symptoms correlate to other conditions seems lost.
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    Interplay between genetics and lifestyle on pain susceptibility in women with fibromyalgia: The al-Ándalus project, 2021, Estévez-López et al

    Mmmm COMT has many functions and impacts many processes. Inflammation, detoxification , cardiovascular, energy production as well as neurotransmitter synthesis.... seratonin and estrogen have roles in pain mediation ( and cohort is female - so was time on menstrual cycle controlled for?). I...
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    Insulin Resistance Is Associated with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity in a Danish Population-Based Study—DanFunD, 2021, Bjerregaard et al

    Chicken or egg? Does insulin resistance not underpin the grehlin and leptin dysregulation which effectively removes the " set point" margins on appetite control and affects fat deposition. From memory once this goes you could be on reduced calorie intake and still divert a proportion to fat...
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    UK: Priority Setting Partnership for ME/CFS

    2155 respondants as of this morning !!
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    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    Sound familiar ?
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    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    https://www.longcovidkids.org/so/28Nsi9OfY?languageTag=en#/main
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    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    https://www.longcovidkids.org/so/28Nsi9OfY?languageTag=en&s=09#/main
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    Covid-19 vaccines and vaccinations

    There is a huge discrepancy between Scotland and England in lab testing for Omicron. You might find better confidence intervals with Scottish data. English labs do not have enough capability to pick up s type gene drop out - a kind of first pass marker for Omricon. Figures have been bandied...
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    Functional neurological disorder: Engaging patients in treatment, 2021, O'Neal, Dworetzky and Baslet

    Already happening here.
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    Shame in the treatment of patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: The elephant in the room, 2021, Myers et al

    Shameless
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    The secondary school experiences of pupils with chronic fatigue syndrome; A retrospective account from young adults aged 18-25 (Winter 2020-2021)

    I do wonder how many who are other than mildly affected will be able to.participate. School can be a significant cause of relapse/ worsening so research would be valuable.
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    What differentiates ME/CFS from known primary mitochondrial diseases; could mitochondrial disease cause PEM?

    @lunarainbows ?
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    “There’s Nothing Wrong With You”: Pain-Related Stigma in Adolescents With Chronic Pain, 2021, Wakefield et al

    How much is misdiagnosis? Or a lack.of investigation? My friends daughter had ongoing back pain blamed on heavy schoolbag . This went on for 12 months. 2 physios failed to make much impact. She could not sit long enough to do any more than 40mins at a time. School were verging on school...
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    UK: Priority Setting Partnership for ME/CFS

    There have been over 1700 responses as of this morning. The survey closes on 13th December
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    UK NICE 2021 ME/CFS Guideline, published 29th October - post-publication discussion

    One of the responses
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    UK: Priority Setting Partnership for ME/CFS

    I don't know what the process is - no doubt that is something which can be confirmed.
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