epidemiology

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

The Development of a Consistent Europe-Wide Approach to Investigating the Economic Impact of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS): A Report from the European Network on ME/CFS (EUROMENE) Authors Derek F.H. Pheby 1,* , Diana Araja 2, Uldis Berkis 3, Elenka Brenna 4 , John Cullinan 5...

I'm interested in understanding what pathogens have been found to reliably be associated with the onset of ME/CFS and/or post-viral fatigue syndrome. I don't think every acute infective illness is associated with ME/CFS, whereas, if the problem was de-conditioning or happily falling into a sick...

I’ve decided to take a closer look at the evidence for chronic Lyme disease. I’ve chosen to skip issues relating to the persistence of the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and the use of prolonged antibiotic therapy, to focus on basic epidemiology. The main question I wanted to answer is whether...

http://onlinesciencepublishing.com/assets/journal/JOU0022/ART00450/1576732660_AJSSH-2020-5(1)-104-115.pdf