Abstract Amidst broad changes to the somatic disorder diagnoses, DSM-IV pain disorder was absorbed into DSM-5’s somatic symptom disorder (SSD) as...
Abstract Background Fatigue is a debilitating symptom of myasthenia gravis (MG). The impact of fatigue on MG can be assessed by Quality of Life...
Abstract Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy (AAG) is a disease of autonomic failure caused by ganglionic acetylcholine receptor (gAChR)...
Abstract Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a common accompaniment of a variety of chronic, inflammatory diseases, including...
As Eleanor points out immediately above, the authors seem confused on this point as well.
Exactly this. Yet, as Snow Leopard has confirmed, both patients and controls received the supervision, so it is as much proof of exertion...
Great, thanks for pointing that out. The question still remains though of why they should feel the need to imply that encouragement of patients...
I think you missed the point that the authors of this paper highlight that they encouraged the patients but not the controls. Encouraging one set...
Abstract Background Functional neurological disorder (FND) is characterised by neurological symptoms, such as seizures and abnormal movements....
The broad question asked here is "Do you think that research should be published with, or without, a preprint stage?". We have recently seen the...
Datasets from this study have been added to the mapMECFS portal, https://www.mapmecfs.org/dataset/?organization=nih-intramural
Full letter can be seen here, https://meassociation.org.uk/2024/02/new-scientist-on-the-use-of-exercise-therapy-for-long-covid/
And if they only gave 'strong encouragement' to the patients then they purposefully biased their results. Additional (rhetorical) question, how...
"Differential cardiorespiratory performance in PI-ME/CFS Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) was performed on eight PI-ME/CFS and nine HVs...
Dr Nicola Clague-Baker on Twitter "A heavily edited letter that we produced in response to the New Scientist article -...
A snippet of interest for @Hutan "Salivary cortisol measurements taken at rest in the morning, at noon, and before sleep showed no group...
Scientists find link between brain imbalance and chronic fatigue syndrome...
"Case adjudication Clinical information from the visit was compiled and reviewed by a Case Adjudication panel. Adjudicators were all recognized...
They are saying that we choose not to do something because we perceive it as too much effort.
"Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is the commonly used term to describe a disorder of persistent and disabling fatigue,...
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