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Associations between long-term conditions and upper gastrointestinal cancer incidence: A prospective population-based cohort of UK Biobank participants Abstract Upper gastrointestinal cancers (oesophageal/stomach) have high mortality rates and are often diagnosed after the disease has...

Abstract Background: Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a long-term disabling illness accompanied by fatigue unsolved by rest. However, ME/CFS is a poorly understood illness that lacks a universally accepted pathophysiology and treatment. A lack of CFS-related...

"Main points At 2 May 2021, an estimated 1.0 million people living in private households in the UK (1.6%) were experiencing self-reported long COVID (symptoms persisting for more than four weeks after the first suspected coronavirus (COVID-19) infection that were not explained by something...

Not new but thought it should be here. " 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...

moved thread Ok, but most of these studies are based on confirmed PCR tests which if I understand correctly require virus particles, not necessarily antibodies. On Twitter someone pointed me to this Danish preprint which found that 16% of patients reported fatigue and 13% concentration...

Open access, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13365-021-00949-1

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21641846.2021.1878716?journalCode=rftg20

Free full text: http://www.sagpj.co.za/index.php/SAGPJ/article/view/41 South African General Practitioner 2020; 1(4):132-134 https://doi.org/10.36303/SAGP.2020.1.4.0041 Sick and tired of COVID-19: long haulers and post viral (fatigue) syndromes Kim Outhoff The full article is available at...

Castori M, Celletti C, Camerota F, Grammatico P. Chronic fatigue syndrome is commonly diagnosed in patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome hypermobility type/joint hypermobility syndrome. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2011;29(3):597-598. https://www.clinexprheumatol.org/article.asp?a=4635 No abstract, this...

More interesting stuff from Goodelf, a two part article on MUS https://opposingmega.wordpress.com/2020/08/19/so-what-if-23-get-worse-2/ Part 1: The PCPCS – a ‘One Door’ Approach to MUS By Goodelf https://opposingmega.wordpress.com/2020/08/19/so-what-if-23-get-worse/ Part 2: One Door, One...

Systematic Review of the Epidemiological Burden of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Across Europe: Current Evidence and EUROMENE Research Recommendations for Epidemiology https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/5/1557

Free full text: http://ejobios.org/article/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-prevalence-in-human-to-human-sphere-workers-factors-contributing-to-7532

full paper here https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186%2Fs12967-020-02269-0

Leonard Jason research finds that many young people have ME/CFS A new study finds that 0.75%, or 1 in 130 young people, have ME.CFS. That's a lot of people living with the illness. Only 5% of those diagnosed with the illness already had a diagnosis. Prevalence increased rapidly as children...

The team of Leonard Jason have performed a prevalence study in Chicago on children and adolescents with ME/CFS. Because this was a community-based study with clinician confirmed diagnosis, this is probably one of the best studies on the prevalence of pediatric ME/CFS thus far...

https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/publications/prevalence-and-treatment-of-chronic-fatigue-syndromeme-and-co-mor

https://emerge.org.au/medical-research-future-fund-win-for-emerge-australia-epidemiology-and-health-economic-impacts-of-me-cfs/#.XYxesKjYo3E

Hello all, I am very familiar with the ICC, CC, CDC vs Oxford criteria discussion, prevalence differences, Oxford obfuscation, etc. but I have a very specific question about what the Wessely crew mean by "CF" vs "CFS". This is not merely academic and is of consequence for important ongoing...

Moderator note: This post and the next two have been copied, and subsequent posts moved from this thread: JAMA -"Advances in understanding the Pathophysiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" by Anthony Komaroff Posts about sex ratio have been moved to a new thread: ME/CFS Epidemiology - sex...

hi I’m sure I can get overall population for my city and region can anyone point me to what the % figure is that gives around 250k PWME in the UK. This could be useful on Sunday.