News from Korea

A thread for news about ME/CFS and related illnesses from Korea

 

Prevalence of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in Korea and Japan: A Meta-Analysis, 2021, Lim and Son

A review of epidemiology in Korea, and Japan. Issues with diagnostic criteria, but interesting to see gender ratios that are less skewed towards female than has often been found elsewhere.

 

Nationwide epidemiological characteristics of chronic fatigue syndrome in South Korea, Lim et al. 2021

A review of national insurance data, with the uncertainties around diagnosis that that implies.

The first and last authors, Eun-Jim Lim and Chang-Gue Son have published a few papers on ME/CFS over the last couple of years, including the one linked in the post above.

The authors' affiliations:

suggest that this background work on epidemiology may be leading up to a trial of a traditional medicine.

 

A new study out from researchers at Daejeon University looking at fatigue, cortisol and cytokine levels in people with Long Covid. This team may be leaning towards a BPS view of Long Covid - HPA axis gets a run.
Clinical and Laboratory Characteristics of Fatigue-dominant Long-COVID subjects: A Cross-Sectional Study, 2024, Lee

 

Well-known, famous people with ME/CFS (public thread)
A K-pop star has announced that she has CFS