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An alternative possibility to 'overactive bladder' which, from the abstract the authors don't consider, is that people with post-Covid ME/CFS may find that they are more prone to infections. I think a number of us with ME/CFS do find that we get flares of cold sores, or infections of various...

Posts about a useful Canadian study on Long Covid epidemiology including rates with reinfections have been moved to the dedicated thread Experiences of Canadians with long-term symptoms following COVID-19, 2023, Kuang et al

Link to the thread on this useful report: Experiences of Canadians with long-term symptoms following COVID-19, 2023, Kuang et al

Posts about a statement on Long Covid by the German Health Minister have been moved to News from Germany

It's an interesting study. 1.1 million adults with Covid-19. 1 in 16 had Long Covid - 6.2%. That sounds reasonable, not the ridiculous percentages (e.g. 50%) that we have seen reported from some studies. I don't know how they defined Long Covid. However some of those risk factors (i.e. of...

Posts about a Scottish study on risk factors for Long Covid have been moved to a new thread: Deriving and validating a risk prediction model for long COVID, 2023, Jeffrey et al

Well, that was the point I made upthread, yes, he very much does. The yoga teacher character's view, very much a BPS view, was displayed and criticised.

For what it's worth, I see those quotes differently, but then, I am a fan of flippancy. From watching some of Gervais' tv shows, it is clear that he isn't a stupid man. I don't think he is an uncaring one either. I think his humour tends to put bad behaviour on display, so we can laugh at the...

I didn't read the whole paper. I took 'changes in accumulated COVID-19 cases' to mean current month cases - but I guess that doesn't really make sense - they could have just said 'current month cases' if that is what they meant. Perhaps 'cases in the previous month' means the most recent...

Yes, but that study was self-reported symptoms. And we all know that GET proponents and the people who believe them only consider reports of improvements to be worth listening to, not reports of harm. And, honestly, even I have some doubts about the accuracy of the reports in terms of them...

I know we've had that discussion before. But many people with ME/CFS push themselves to do activities that are as exhausting and risky as a CPET in order to achieve something they think is worthwhile. Fluge and Mella found participants for the cyclophosphamide trial. I think a multiple CPET...

The study is certainly drawing a long bow. In theory, reduced reaction times as part of Long Covid might be playing a part, but the investigators report a real time association between road deaths and Covid-19 cases. So, it's more likely to be people who are sick with acute Covid-19, maybe...

I've said it before, but I would really like to see a proteomic study with multiple CPETs (more than 2, maybe 5, one per day ) done in people with relatively mild ME/CFS (with very careful control of activity levels before and between the tests, and frequent testing of blood and reaction time...

Perhaps it is just a difference in how PEM is defined, but I think this sentence indicates that there is still not a clear understanding of what PEM is. For me, PEM is not something I experienced after exercise when healthy, not even briefly. The experience that I term PEM is when the only...

There is a lot of overlap between the two cohorts. The arteriolar/venular (width) ratio (AVR) shows the best separation, with a very good P value. But, still a lot of overlap. The association with narrower retinal arterioles became non-significant "after adjustment" for confounders. I'm not...

These measures have been used in heart disease research and seem to be credible as measures of endothelial dysfunction. 41 PCS 204 healthy controls - SARS CoV-2 naive - which is a shame. Healthy post Covid-19 patients would have been better The Canadian Consensus Criteria were used to identify...

I'd missed this paper:

I'm not clear on whether at least the first part of the study this protocol is for has been completed and published. I think maybe it has.