Demographic Correlates of Fatigue in the US General Population: Results from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Initiative
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3744100/. free access
Abstract
Objective
To investigate demographic correlates of fatigue...
J.L. Newton 1
J. Pairman 1
K. Hallsworth 1, 2
S. Moore 1,2
T. Plo TZ 3 and
M.I. Trenell 1, 2
1. UK National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre in Ageing & Age-related Disease, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK,
2. MRC Centre for Brain...
Not new but thought it should be here.
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Abstract
Background
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has been used to name a range of chronic conditions characterized by extreme fatigue and other disabling symptoms. Attempts to estimate the...
Abstract
Background: Neurologic Post Treatment Lyme disease (nPTLS) and Chronic Fatigue (CFS) are syndromes of unknown etiology. They share features of fatigue and cognitive dysfunction, making it difficult to differentiate them. Unresolved is whether nPTLS is a subset of CFS.
Methods and...
Interesting case report of an ME/CFS patient with carcinoid tumors.
Carcinoid tumour associated with enterovirus infection.
Journal of Clinical Pathology 2011, Chia J, et al.
From abstract;
https://jcp.bmj.com/content/64/8/722.full
Behind a paywall unfortunately.
Not a new study, it's from 2011, but thought it might be of use posted on the forum.
Open access, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3633594/
Copied from the New Zealand thread
This is the paper she is referring to: The pathway from glandular fever to chronic fatigue syndrome: can the cognitive behavioural model provide the map?
I think the paper is worth a discussion because it is one of the few papers that actually tried to test...
A study that is of interest because it measured activity levels with an accelerometer.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22032215
Unfortunately the authors did not investigate further to find out the "direction of these relations".
My 2011 NY Times Exchange With the PACE PIs
When the PACE trial was published in early 2011, my New York Times editor sent it to me, along with the press release. As a non-staff contributor to the Times, I had started covering the debate over the mouse retrovirus hypothesis and science, but I’d...
I just came upon this, and thought it was pretty funny how badly it has aged. The first two sentences are hilarious imo: the "obvious paradox" and then the "should be proof enough". He's showing off about the fact that he doesn't know how to think. Should be proof enough?!
Acknowledge good...
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