Yes, it seems that any sort of neuronal loss can cause cortical thinning - dementia, Parkinsons, aging, brain injury. If the authors think that...
On another issue - recovery Of the 139 people accepted for the study, 20 were later deemed not suitable due to 'clinical improvement'. That's a...
Arguably, that is exactly what we have seen, people with different mixes of a range of symptoms. But yes, this study seems to suggest that...
For what it is worth @rvallee, it appears that the very reason that Arroll wrote that 2001 article bleating about his 1999 paper on women getting...
Politicians come and go. But, if big drug companies have a financial reason to not see LC as psychosomatic, that could lead to them being more...
Vaccine as prevention against post-Covid-19 condition Makes me think that the big companies selling covid-19 vaccinations may be allies in...
Note - small number of cases. Less than 50% were female.
Another excerpt: Clearly, Arroll knows the difference between audit and research, he just feels that he doesn't need to follow the rules. And...
Yes, there is. I quoted it above.
Seems worth a closer look. It's a decently sized study that, from the abstract, looks to have been well controlled. A question I have is, if a...
I think it's pretty clearly research. It is aiming to answer a question about treatment efficacy, the researcher had direct contact with the...
Here's the definition of research, Section 1 of the standards:
Here are the standards that govern health research in NZ https://neac.health.govt.nz/national-ethical-standards/part-two/18-quality-improvement...
I think this is a point well worth investigating more. I also think that a letter to the funders of this study is another advocacy possibility.
The journal is the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care. I thought it might not be a well regarded journal, but it seems to be relatively...
I still recall Dr Ros Vallings, medical advisor to ANZMES, standing up at an ANZMES annual general meeting reporting on this study and suggesting...
That's a really interesting comment. So, could it be that this finding says nothing about aging per se, but hints at white blood cells...
Arroll leads a unit that provides education resources for New Zealand GPs. He is very influential in NZ medicine. He and the Royal NZ College of...
This is an old study now. Has it been replicated?
This is a study of post-Covid-19 cognitive impairment, so the participants haven't had decades yet.
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