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Abstract Background There is a paucity of knowledge on the long-term outcome in patients diagnosed with COVID-19. We describe a cohort of patients with a constellation of symptoms occurring four weeks after diagnosis causing different degrees of reduced functional capacity. Although different...

Abstract Despite the growing number of patients with persistent symptoms after acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, the pathophysiology underlying long-COVID is not yet well characterized, and there is no established therapy. We performed a deep immune profiling in nine patients with persistent symptoms...

Abstract Positive psychology is the study of positive subjective experience and individual traits. Identifying deficits in positive psychology regarding fibromyalgia may inform targets for management. Therefore, the aim of the present case–control study was to compare the levels of positive...

The aim of present paper is to identify clinical phenotypes in a cohort of patients affected of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Ninety-one patients and 22 healthy controls were studied with the following questionnaires, in addition to medical history: visual analogical...

Abstract Background: Routine blood analytics are systematically used in the clinic to diagnose disease or confirm individuals’ healthy status. For myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a disease relying exclusively on clinical symptoms for its diagnosis, blood analytics...

Abstract Objective: The identification of a complementary test to confirm the diagnosis of FM. The diagnosis of fibromyalgia (FM) is based on clinical features, but there is still no consensus, so patients and clinicians might benefit from such a test. Recent findings showed that pain lies in...

Abstract Objective: How can it be that a disease as serious as CFS affecting such a large number of people could be so unknown to the general population? The answer given to this question is based on Pierre Bourdieu’s analyzes of symbolic violence. Method: The “letters to the editor” by CFS...

Spain produces quite a lot of ME/CFS research and we have some Spanish members, so I thought it might be useful to have a regional thread for Spain. There's new research out from the Barcelona team with Jesús Castro-Marrero, using trial participants from the ME/CFS Unit, Vall d'Hebron...

Preprint Effect of Melatonin Plus Zinc Supplementation on Fatigue Perception in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial " Abstract Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a complex, multisystem, and...

The researcher of the Biological Foundations of Mental Disorders group and head of the Central Sensitisation Syndrome section at the University Hospital of Santa Maria de Lleida, Lluís Rosselló, has presented the study. full article here...

Full title: Impact of Long-Term Cryopreservation on Blood Immune Cell Markers in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Implications for Biomarker Discovery https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2020.582330/full

Full title: What scientific evidence do the current classifications have in order to assess occupational disability in patients with central sensitisation syndrome? Abstract in English, full paper in Spanish. Paywall, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1138359320302616...

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

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5301046/ Reads rather well

Study conducted by a Hospital CFS/ME unit in Barcelona, Spain. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7225-z

Been asked to share this Spanish petition on social media but wondered if any of our Spanish speaking members could offer an opinion on the petitions demands i.e. are they the sort of demands that this forum would be likely to support...

This is a nursing qualitative research paper from Spain. Paywalled. Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Illness Experiences Abstract Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis, and multiple chemical sensitivity can be considered...

"Servando Castello, AKA “Low Battery Man" patient activist Servando Castello is taking to the streets of Spain and Portugal to raise awareness of ME/CFS and fundraise to support OMF’s research programs. Servando’s creativity is inspirational. " https://lowbatteryman.com/ Yandex translation.

Impact of Polypharmacy on Candidate Biomarker miRNomes for the Diagnosis of Fibromyalgia and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Striking Back on Treatments Eloy Almenar-Pérez 1, Teresa Sánchez-Fito 1, Tamara Ovejero 2, Lubov Nathanson 3,4 and Elisa Oltra 2,5,* 1 Escuela de...