Agree, this is a big hole in the ME/CFS research. I have often found myself scouring papers for this and exasperated when the information just...
Yup. Some other tidbits that might be of interest, from the interview described above with Paddy Mallon, the Infectious Diseases Consultant:...
I listened back to the programme. I don't know if others will be able to access it, but here's the info: https://www.newstalk.com/listen-back The...
Hm, I dislike the jump to FND as much as anyone, but I disagree. I read the JAMA article. They’re not saying that any symptoms following...
I thought this blog post written by someone with both depression (pre-ME/CFS) and ME/CFS was interesting. After explaining how any exertion...
In the context of people who may have ME/CFS following SARS-CoV-2 infection infection, what I want is for clinicians to carefully distinguish, not...
This analysis of 196 covid-19 critical care admissions in England, Wales & N. Ireland was being discussed on the UK news yesterday. You can...
How will age distribution in populations affect how covid-19 spreads and impacts different countries? If Italy's high death rate is due to its...
Thought y’all might be interested in this analysis of Irish cases. Smaller numbers and earlier stage of the pandemic than some other European...
You can download an Excel file with all of the publications on Covid-19 to date from the WHO website:...
Regarding age, I get the impression that plenty of people (not on S4ME, just generally) think “elderly” refers to something north of 80. Or at...
Thankfully all St Patrick's Day parades, nationwide, have now been cancelled in Ireland. That happened yesterday. So that's something. I found...
Table 1 in this study from the New England Journal of Medicine shows data for patients with various co-morbidities including COPD (but not...
Agreed, those are two different things. I haven't yet come across any studies reporting how premorbid asthma or other respiratory illness affects...
I hadn't heard diarrhoea mentioned as a symptom either, but this paper mentions reported by 39.6% of a sample of 140 patients in Wuhan, China....
I do and meant to include it! https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/article/42/9/1050/1772059 It's Tench et al 2003 Fatigue in systemic lupus...
In this trial of exercise in lupus co-authored by Peter White, they used three fatigue scales....
@Lucibee and I talked about particular problems with the Chalder Fatigue scale on a previous thread. We looked at NHS data from Collin &...
I’m really pleased that Tomas and her team did this important piece of work. My impression, from hearing other people’s test results and how they...
About the diagnostic test/tool question: Both Dr Myhill's initial response (see @Sarah94 ‘s message #25 above) and this response by Dr...
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