Search results

For the association they did find (higher fatigue at follow-up correlates to lower hair cortisol at follow-up) the correlation looks to be fairly small (R²=0.02). Unadjusted p=0.026.

Nature News: "First-of-a-kind stem-cell therapies set for approval in Japan" 23 February 2026 MedicalXpress: "Japan approves stem-cell treatment for Parkinson's in world first" 6 March 2026

Phase I/II trial of iPS-cell-derived dopaminergic cells for Parkinson’s disease Abstract Parkinson’s disease is caused by the loss of dopamine neurons, causing motor symptoms. Initial cell therapies using fetal tissues showed promise but had complications and ethical concerns1,2,3,4,5...

That's a good thought. Maybe it's worth trying to compile firsthand accounts. A quick search pulled up this qualitative study, and I just skimmed so far and saw these quotes: Women of the Gulf War: Understanding Their Military and Health Experiences Over 30 Years (Military Medicine, 2022)

I'm interested because I think some of the researchers of GWI might be right about nerve gases or other toxins causing the syndrome (maybe including the cases of GWI-associated ME/CFS). If that turns out to be correct, then it might be a big clue for understanding ME/CFS to know that a specific...

Just a note that these figures for specific symptom prevalences may be slightly off, as Table 4 shows prevalences after excluding individuals with certain conditions: It shouldn't change it too much. The full sample of GWV is 1545 individuals. 17% of cases with the symptom of "feeling unwell...

I started reading section "2.2.1. Post-Exertional Malaise in GWI". This is the first sentence about prevalence of PEM in GWI: The study cited is this: Peripheral cholinergic function in humans with chronic fatigue syndrome, Gulf War syndrome and with illness following organophosphate exposure...

It looks like the thesis noted here cites some more recent evidence about GWI and PEM that might be good to dig into:

The million dollar question. This thread has a bit more speculation on that: Gulf War Illness - causes

There's no control group, but they say other studies have shown a prevalence of 4%. I'm not sure why the second paper is cited, from the abstract, but the first one seems to be be studying a sample intentionally chosen to have higher than average rates of sleep disorders, which I think means...

I made a thread for a study that is relevant to looking for similarities between Gulf War illness and ME/CFS: Prevalence and Patterns of Gulf War Illness in Kansas Veterans: Association of Symptoms with Characteristics of Person, Place, and Time of Military Service, 2000, Steele et al The...

Table 3 shows the proportion of Gulf War (PGW) and non-Gulf War (non-PGW) veterans reporting having been diagnosed or treated for a condition by a physician, with new onset after the Gulf War: The highest odds ratio (highlighted by me) is for chronic fatigue syndrome (OR=8.70, 95% CI...

This is a survey study on veterans who had been on active duty in 1990 or 1991. They were split into those who had served in the Persian Gulf War (PGW) and those who had served elsewhere (non-PGW). An impressive >90% of the randomly selected sample who were eligible and could be located...

I'm trying to figure out if ME/CFS or PEM is a characteristic of gulf war illness. This study was cited by Baraniuk 2017 as reference 7:

Prevalence and Patterns of Gulf War Illness in Kansas Veterans: Association of Symptoms with Characteristics of Person, Place, and Time of Military Service Steele, L. Abstract Gulf War veterans have reported health problems that they attribute to their military service, but little is...

Though even if the study is not representative, it does seem to show that at least around 40% of fibromyalgia patients at a rheumatology clinic have sleep apnea. And since at least some of the 60% who didn't participate likely also have sleep apnea, the prevalence is probably higher than that...

"Consecutive" is useful when all of the consecutive patients participate. If less than half of the patients participate based on voluntarily choosing to do a sleep study, then it's not representative, and is probably skewed to people with sleep issues.

I thought it'd be worth looking at this study, noted by @nataliezzz in another thread as showing a very high prevalence of sleep disorders in fibromyalgia:

Sleep-Disordered Breathing Among Women With Fibromyalgia Syndrome Shah, Mansi A.; Feinberg, Stanford; Krishnan, Eswar Background In clinical practice, polysomnograms (“sleep studies”) are seldom ordered for patients with fibromyalgia, although sleep issues dominate the symptom complex. One...