Andy
Senior Member (Voting rights)
I note that there is this thread already kind of on this topic, Possibility of ME or PVFS after COVID-19, so I may well be duplicating a lot of discussion there, but I thought it would be worth having a thread to discuss this specific subject as there is already discussion in the wider world taking place for such post-COVID-19 studies.
To clarify, I don't think the plans are for ME specific studies (i.e. only looking for ME cases after COVID-19) but if they were, what would be the most useful information to be recorded?
The first thing that comes to my mind is activity pre- and post-COVID-19, to see if those people who go on to develop ME actually conform to the deconditioned idea or not. Potentially this might show that those less active actually are less likely to develop ME as they don't over-exert themselves as much, although there are a lot of possible confounding factors that could be involved.
Post any other ideas that you might have below.
To clarify, I don't think the plans are for ME specific studies (i.e. only looking for ME cases after COVID-19) but if they were, what would be the most useful information to be recorded?
The first thing that comes to my mind is activity pre- and post-COVID-19, to see if those people who go on to develop ME actually conform to the deconditioned idea or not. Potentially this might show that those less active actually are less likely to develop ME as they don't over-exert themselves as much, although there are a lot of possible confounding factors that could be involved.
Post any other ideas that you might have below.