Some people insist ME can only follow from an enterovirus; there are other post viral/infectious sequelae but they are distinctly different and not ME.
I don’t recall reading about any studies that showed this but I don’t know or recall every bit of evidence of course.
I imagine there is supposed to be a point somewhere in there but all I read is people saying if they had been tasked with it they would have done it differently because they don't like the outcome it gave without being there to change it to their preference. No substantial argument other than...
Sorry about the clickbait title. :)
So here is my situation and strategy: Right now I am the only person in the entire country advocating for ME/CFS, I'm literally like the Popular Front of Judea. I have a group and followers but they are very passive as it is still quite a new community. I'm...
I can't see any CFS criteria being mentioned, so I'm not sure whether the patients are well-defined CFS patients or not.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7888998/
This thread has been split from a thread discussing a book about Ron Davis:
The Puzzle Solver by Tracie White
I've been following ME/CFS research and news and reading forums for over 25 years. I think that the UK has played a much bigger part internationally in psychologising the condition and...
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and gulf war illness patients exhibit increased humoral responses to the herpesviruses-encoded dUTPase: Implications in disease pathophysiology
Peter Halpin 1, Marshall Vance Williams 1 2, Nancy G Klimas 3 4, Mary Ann Fletcher 3 4, Zachary...
They talk, in the abstract, about chronic fatigue only, but the patients they discuss have gone through a "CFS/ME" assessment, so may or may not have ME.
Open access, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2021.1883011
This part possibly explains a bit more clearly what the...
Full title: Who should we ask about mental health symptoms in adolescents with CFS/ME? Parent-child agreement on the revised children’s anxiety and depression scale
Open access, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1359104521994880
https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(21)00256-7/fulltext
EDIT: also available here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012369221002567
Full title: Chronic COVID-19 Syndrome and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) following the first pandemic wave in Germany: a first analysis of a prospective observational study
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.06.21249256v1
A thread on the announcement of funding for the study has been merged with the announcement of the study
I haven't searched for more details on this yet.
Sanofi are a pharmaceutical company.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/academic-child-health/grants/
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