epidemiology

Abstract Background The long-term sequelae of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in children remain poorly characterised. This study aimed to assess long-term outcomes in children previously hospitalised with Covid-19 and associated risk factors. Methods This is a prospective cohort study of...

Objective: Numerous epidemiological studies have been conducted to examine the prevalence and comorbidities of insomnia and document sleep duration, but a common limitation in many studies is the lack of use of agreed-upon definitions of insomnia, as well as insufficient statistical power to...

"Main points At 2 May 2021, an estimated 1.0 million people living in private households in the UK (1.6%) were experiencing self-reported long COVID (symptoms persisting for more than four weeks after the first suspected coronavirus (COVID-19) infection that were not explained by something...

I am looking for any good data on the different types of onset. Ideally, this should be from a large, representative sample. I'm pretty sure that no such study exists. From memory, I think that the Chronic Fatigue Initiative, CFI, did publish something on this, possibly a paper by Dana March...

Highlights • Prevalence of diagnoses were lower in the diagnostic interview than in self-reported questionnaires. • Discrepancies constituted the clinical evaluation of symptom attribution and impairment. • Symptom questionnaires are an important screening tool. • Diagnostic interviews are...

Not new but thought it should be here. " Abstract Background Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has been used to name a range of chronic conditions characterized by extreme fatigue and other disabling symptoms. Attempts to estimate the...

Full title: 6-month neurological and psychiatric outcomes in 236 379 survivors of COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study using electronic health records Background Neurological and psychiatric sequelae of COVID-19 have been reported, but more data are needed to adequately assess the effects of...

moved thread Ok, but most of these studies are based on confirmed PCR tests which if I understand correctly require virus particles, not necessarily antibodies. On Twitter someone pointed me to this Danish preprint which found that 16% of patients reported fatigue and 13% concentration...

Moved post https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.22.21254057v1 Abstract Background The impact of COVID-19 on physical and mental health, and employment following hospitalisation is poorly understood. Methods PHOSP-COVID is a multi-centre, UK, observational study of adults...

Background COVID-19 is a syndrome caused by the recently emerged SARS-CoV-2. We collected clinical and epidemiologic data in an almost complete cohort of SARS-CoV-2 positive individuals from Regensburg, Germany, from March 2020 to May 2020. Methods Analysis of a retrospectively documented...

The Norwegian ME Association just published an impressive survey on 5.822 ME patients in Norway. An English summary is available here: https://me-foreningen.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Norwegian-ME-Association-2021-Report-on-the-course-of-illness-English-summary.pdf

@Tom Kindlon is one of the authors. Open access, https://hrbopenresearch.org/articles/3-88/v1

Free full text: https://academic.oup.com/occmed/advance-article/doi/10.1093/occmed/kqaa166/5929827 Impact of Q-fever fatigue syndrome on patients’ work status D F M Reukers, J A F van Loenhout, I Roof, T F Senden, S P Keijmel, C P Bleeker-Rovers, C H M van Jaarsveld, J L A Hautvast, K van der...

Paywall, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41584-020-00506-w Sci hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1038/s41584-020-00506-w

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202009.0744/v1

(I'm not entirely sure where to post this since it's neither biomedical nor psychosocial research...) The Economic Impacts of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in an Australian Cohort Shara Close, Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, Joshua Byrnes, Peter Smith, Son Nghiem and Don...

Full title: Functional gastrointestinal disorders are increased in joint hypermobility‐related disorders with concomitant postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome Open access, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nmo.13975?af=R

Paywall, https://content.iospress.com/articles/work/wor203173 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.tw/10.3233/WOR-203173

https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-020-02419-4

Systematic Review of the Epidemiological Burden of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Across Europe: Current Evidence and EUROMENE Research Recommendations for Epidemiology https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/5/1557