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Abstract Background Skin-restricted lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with high rates of depression and anxiety disorders. Patients without psychiatric disorders can experience anxiety and depressive symptoms at a subclinical level, which could be risk factors for progression...

Abstract Background and Objective The objectives of this study were to investigate health care utilization costs of patients with video-electroencephalography (VEEG)–confirmed functional seizures (FS), determine whether patients who received a satisfactory functional neurologic disorder (FND)...

Thread here, A mixed-methods systematic review of post-viral fatigue interventions: Are there lessons for long Covid?, 2021, Fowler-Davis et al

Twitter thread from one of the authors

Abstract Microbially-derived short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in the human gut are tightly coupled to host metabolism, immune regulation, and integrity of the intestinal epithelium. However, the production of SCFAs can vary widely between individuals consuming the same diet, with lower levels...

She is also listed as an author on this Snippets from White P et al. "Eight major errors in the review process and interpretation of the evidence in the NICE guideline [...]" [for ME/CFS]

She is currently listed as a Steering Committee Representative for COFFI, https://www.coffi-collaborative.com/steering-committee, so I would say that she can, and is, more than a bit biopsychosocial.

Email from the NIH ME/CFS Information List. "The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) will sponsor a Scientific Workshop on Post Dialysis Fatigue on May 22-23, 2023. Please visit this URL for more information about the workshop and to register...

"If all forms of cancer were grouped together as one, we'd have no cancer treatments today. The people encouraging combining ME/CFS and LC research are conducting psyops on both communities to stop R&D for both. Please don't be a victim twice. Advocate for separate R&D." And their Twitter bio...

Cochrane trying to be ironic perhaps? "Denounce, deny, deceive. The manipulation playbook of anti-science actors. @PhilippMarkolin writes an engaging article about an issue that is increasingly relevant on social media and in the mainstream media too...

Honestly, I don't feel that it would be right for us, as DecodeME, to ask a particular charity to copy what another charity might have done in terms of promoting us. We are grateful for all the support shown to us in all different forms; I know that the MEA has featured us in their members...

Abstract Background: Long COVID (LC) is a diagnosis that requires exclusion of alternative somatic and mental diseases. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of differential diagnoses in suspected pediatric LC patients and assess whether adult LC symptom clusters are applicable to...

Abstract A novel syndrome called long-haul COVID or long COVID is increasingly recognized in a significant percentage of individuals within a few months after infection with SARS-CoV-2. This disorder is characterized by a wide range of persisting, returning or even new but related symptoms that...

Greenhalgh on Twitter "Doctors, if you dismiss someone with orthostatic tachycardia as "just anxious" without taking a full clinical history and properly examining them, you may be part of the problem. We've heard some awful stories. Please: read the paper for advice on what tests to do." "Not...

The News in Brief posts from February on Reddit.

Full title: The short-chain fatty acid butyrate exerts a specific effect on VE-cadherin phosphorylation and alters the integrity of aortic endothelial cells Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) like butyrate (BUT) largely influence vascular integrity and are closely associated with the onset and...

Now published. Abstract Background Few prospective studies of Long COVID risk factors have been conducted. The purpose of this study was to determine whether sociodemographic factors, lifestyle, or medical history preceding COVID-19 or characteristics of acute severe acute respiratory syndrome...

Asthenia is a clinical syndrome that can be manifest in almost all somatic, infectious, and neurological diseases. Initially a protective mechanism indicating depletion of energy resources, asthenia can become a pathological and extremely disabling condition, and can even progress to an...

Brain fog is a kind of mental problem, similar to chronic fatigue syndrome, and appears about 3 months after the infection with COVID-19 and lasts up to 9 months. The maximum magnitude of the third wave of COVID-19 in Poland was in April 2021. The research referred here aimed at carrying out the...

Confusingly though "Diagnosis of ME/CFS was based on the Canadian Consensus Criteria (2003).17,18 Using the DePaul symptom questionnaire,19 patients who meet five or more of the six criteria are considered to have ME/CFS" Even more confusingly they say "The DePaul symptom questionnaire, [used]...