Category Archives: News
Fatigue & psychosocial variables in autoimmune rheumatic disease & CFS
Research abstract: Objective: Fatigue is common in autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARD). This study compared symptom-related cognitions, beliefs, behaviours, quality of sleep, lack of acceptance and distress in participants with ARD such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), seronegative spondyloarthropathy (SpA), and connective tissue disease (CTD), … Continue reading
Efficacy of 4-steps physical activity self-regulation programme for chronic fatigue
Research highlights: 4-STEPS yielded sustained small to moderate sustained effects on self-reported fatigue severity, impact, and health-related quality of life. There were modest effects on physical activity. There were no significant effects on psychological and somatic distress. Benefits on fatigue … Continue reading
Poor sleep quality, greater circulating pro-inflammatory cytokines & severity & frequency of CFS/ME
Research highlights: Sleep quality, inflammation, and CFS/ME symptoms were analyzed. Poor sleep quality predicted pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α. Worse sleep quality related to greater fatigue severity and daily interference. Worse sleep quality related to more severe and frequent … Continue reading
The potential role of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner in CFS
Research abstract: Aims: To explore the experiences and expectations of patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and general practitioners in order to develop the potential role of an Advanced Nurse Practitioner at the diagnostic care path of abnormal fatigue developed for … Continue reading
UK ME/CFS Biobank update – 30,000 samples banked
CureME newsletter December 2016: UK ME/CFS Biobank are delighted to announce that we have reached our participant recruitment goals and have now banked close to 30,000 aliquots (blood samples) in the Biobank. Our samples represent people with mild/moderate ME/CFS, severe ME/CFS, … Continue reading
Christmas greetings to all from WAMES
Hanson & co defend mtDNA research findings
Article abstract: Earlier this year, we described an analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variants in myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)/chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients and healthy controls. We reported that there was no significant association of haplogroups or singe nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with … Continue reading
Identifying key symptoms differentiating ME & CFS from MS
Research abstract: It is unclear what key symptoms differentiate Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and Chronic Fatigue syndrome (CFS) from Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The current study compared self-report symptom data of patients with ME or CFS with those with MS. The self-report … Continue reading
