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Genetic risk prediction methods applied to CFS
Research abstract: Background: The current practice of using only a few strongly associated genetic markers in regression models results in generally low power in prediction or accounting for heritability of complex human traits. Purpose: We illustrate here a Bayesian joint … Continue reading
Mitochondrial depletion & energy problems in CFS
Mitochondrial Depletion Could Underlie the Energy Problems in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, comment by Cort Johnson, May 26, 2015 Very, very few chronic fatigue syndrome studies have emerged from Germany, but the last two have been good ones. The one before this … Continue reading
Diagnostic methods for ME/CFS: a review
Research abstract: Background: The diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)/chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is based on clinical criteria, yet there has been no consensus regarding which set of criteria best identifies patients with the condition. The Institute of Medicine has recently … Continue reading
Gene expression can differentiate CFS, FM and depression
Research abstract: OBJECTIVE To determine if independent candidate genes can be grouped into meaningful biological factors and if these factors are associated with the diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FMS) while controlling for co-morbid depression, sex, and age. … Continue reading
Fecal microbiota transplantation – a treatment in CFS?
Research abstract: Intestinal dysbiosis is now known to be a complication in a myriad of diseases. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), as a microbiota-target therapy, is arguably very effective for curing Clostridium difficile infection and has good outcomes in other intestinal … Continue reading
CFS v SEID as diagnostic criteria
Research abstract: Background: The Institute of Medicine has recommended a change in the name and criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), renaming the illness systemic exertion intolerance disease (SEID). The new SEID case definition requires substantial reductions or impairments in … Continue reading
Autophagy in bacterial infections
Research abstract: Autophagy is a highly conserved catabolic process for the degradation of cytosolic components including damaged organelles, protein aggregates, and intracellular bacteria through a lysosome-dependent pathway. Autophagy can be induced in response to stress conditions. Furthermore, autophagy has been … Continue reading
ME/CFS: ethical and unethical uses of NLP
In this article by Nancy Blake, she argues that it is unethical and harmful to use Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to persuade a person with ME to deny the biomedical realities of ME/CFS, to tell them that all will be well … Continue reading
Time loaded standing in women with CFS
Research abstract Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), like patients with osteoporosis, have similar difficulties in standing and sitting. The aim of the study was to compare combined trunk and arm endurance among women with CFS (n=72), women with osteoporosis … Continue reading
