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  1. BruceInOz
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    The micro-clot finding in Long Covid — implications for the possible aetiology of ME/CFS

    Can these micro clots effect the erythrocyte sedimentation rate? There has been speculation in the past that ME is associated with low values....
    Post by: BruceInOz, Dec 23, 2021 in forum: Blood (e.g. coagulation, cell stiffness)
  2. BruceInOz
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    Independent advisory group for the full update of the Cochrane review on exercise therapy and ME/CFS (2020), led by Hilda Bastian

    How much of the difference is accounted for by NICE downgrading studies that did not require PEM. I presume cochrane did not do this. If they did,...
    Post by: BruceInOz, Nov 11, 2021 in forum: 2021 Cochrane Exercise Therapy Review
  3. BruceInOz
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    The micro-clot finding in Long Covid — implications for the possible aetiology of ME/CFS

    This possibility of a link to the deformability of red blood cells has been around for a while beginning with Leslie Simpson in the 1980's. I...
    Post by: BruceInOz, Nov 9, 2021 in forum: Blood (e.g. coagulation, cell stiffness)
  4. BruceInOz
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    Evidence based care for people with chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis, 2021, Sharpe, Chalder & White

    I hope this references my paper where we surveyed 203 consecutive patients presenting at the emergency department of a local hospital complaining...
    Post by: BruceInOz, Oct 23, 2021 in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  5. BruceInOz
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    Impact of Life Stressors on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Symptoms: An Australian Longitudinal Study, 2021, Balinas,Staines et al

    The ICC uses PENE and, as @DokaGirl noted, Staines is an author on both this paper and the ICC.
    Post by: BruceInOz, Oct 12, 2021 in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  6. BruceInOz
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    FoI request regarding an 'activist list' in the Sunday Times Magazine in May 2013

    I think the full lyrics of that song are important here. What is being wished for is the death of the "Masters of War", which makes the song...
    Post by: BruceInOz, Sep 4, 2021 in forum: General ME/CFS news
  7. BruceInOz
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    Long COVID and ME/CFS—A Systemic Review and Comparison of Clinical Presentation and Symptomatology, 2021, Wong and Weizer

    But isn't that the point of a systematic review? To survey the previous papers and point out the common themes.
    Post by: BruceInOz, Jun 22, 2021 in forum: Long Covid research
  8. BruceInOz
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    Independent advisory group for the full update of the Cochrane review on exercise therapy and ME/CFS (2020), led by Hilda Bastian

    I suspect that Hilda's reference to 'pounding' may be related to the insistence by most of us here that subjective outcomes in unblinded trials...
    Post by: BruceInOz, Jun 5, 2021 in forum: 2021 Cochrane Exercise Therapy Review
  9. BruceInOz
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    Well-known, famous people with Covid-19 and Long Covid

    What's to say there weren't multiple spreaders?
    Post by: BruceInOz, Oct 6, 2020 in forum: Epidemics (including Covid-19, not Long Covid)
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    UK writer with ME Susanna Clarke - press articles

    Yes. No I don't think it's that at all. For me, some seemingly simple cognitive tasks just seem to require more energy than my brain can supply,...
    Post by: BruceInOz, Sep 14, 2020 in forum: General ME/CFS news
  11. BruceInOz
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    New draft NICE guidelines for chronic pain emphasises exercise, CBT and acupuncture over medication

    Is there evidence to support acupuncture for pain? I had the impression such evidence was rather poor. Am I wrong?
    Post by: BruceInOz, Aug 4, 2020 in forum: Other guidelines
  12. BruceInOz
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    Predicting return to work after long-term sickness absence with subjective health complaints: a prospective cohort study, 2020, Weerdesteijn et al

    From the abstract I assume this is just correlation with no demonstration of causality. I imagine being more unwell makes one more likely to claim...
    Post by: BruceInOz, Jul 13, 2020 in forum: Other psychosomatic news and research
  13. BruceInOz
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    Anyone else in the U.K. had a letter about a covid testing study?

    I haven't read anything about the study but I'm guessing they want to know how often the tests agree, whether that's positive or negative. As...
    Post by: BruceInOz, Jul 1, 2020 in forum: Epidemics (including Covid-19, not Long Covid)
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    Alterations in Brain Function After Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Migraine in Children and Adolescents, 2020, Nahman-Averbuch et al

    When I see two numbers with overlapping error ranges like that I assume they are not statistically significantly different. I don't understand...
    Post by: BruceInOz, Jun 29, 2020 in forum: Other psychosomatic news and research
  15. BruceInOz
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    Gaslighting's evil twin siblings: Brandolini's Law of the Asymmetry of Bullshit and Gish Galloping

    What a funny coincidence. I just googled "Brandolini's law gish gallop" since I had been thinking about how both concepts seem very relevant to...
    Post by: BruceInOz, Feb 2, 2020 in forum: Other health news and research
  16. BruceInOz
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    Crossing Chiari and syringomyelia off the list

    Of course, if we knew how to give someone severe ME for a week and then make it go away we may all be a lot better off:)
    Post by: BruceInOz, Dec 5, 2019 in forum: Neurological diseases
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    Changes in circulating microRNA after recumbent isometric yoga practice by patients with ME/CFS: pilot study, 2019, Takakura,Oka,Sudo

    Bit pointless without controls.
    Post by: BruceInOz, Dec 3, 2019 in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  18. BruceInOz
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    Efficacy of Korean red ginseng (Panax ginseng) for middle-aged and moderate level of chronic fatigue patients, 2019, Sung et al

    Is the middle aged thing a post hoc analysis? The abstract makes it sound like the prespecified analysis was null so they went fishing.
    Post by: BruceInOz, Nov 24, 2019 in forum: Other health news and research
  19. BruceInOz
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    Intra brainstem connectivity is impaired in chronic fatigue syndrome, Barnden et al., 2019

    I had a rather similar experience in the first few years of my illness. At the peaks I never quite got good enough to resume normal life, but...
    Post by: BruceInOz, Nov 15, 2019 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    PACE trial TSC and TMG minutes released

    Surely it's a complete nonsense to place any significance on A being twice B if A and B are not statistically significantly different. How did...
    Post by: BruceInOz, Oct 27, 2019 in forum: Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid
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