{"id":28367,"date":"2020-12-14T23:04:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=28367"},"modified":"2020-12-14T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:04:47","slug":"cardiac-dimensions-function-are-not-altered-among-females-with-the-me-cfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/cardiac-dimensions-function-are-not-altered-among-females-with-the-me-cfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiac dimensions & function are not altered among females with the ME\/CFS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cardiac dimensions and function are not altered among females with the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis\/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome<\/a>, by\u00a0 Per Ole Iversen, Thomas Gero von Lueder, Kristin Reimers Kardel and Katarina Lien in<\/span> Healthcare<\/em> 2020, 8(4), 406 [doi.org\/10.3390\/healthcare8040406]<\/h3>\n

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Research abstract:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Background:<\/strong> Myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS) is a debilitating condition associated with several negative health outcomes. A hallmark of ME\/CFS is decreased exercise capacity and often profound exercise intolerance. The causes of ME\/CFS and its related symptoms are unknown, but there are indications of a dysregulated metabolism with impaired glycolytic vs oxidative energy balance.<\/p>\n

In line with this, we recently demonstrated abnormal lactate accumulation among ME\/CFS patients compared with healthy controls after exercise testing.\u00a0Here we examined if cardiac dimensions and function were altered in ME\/CFS, as this could lead to increased lactate production.<\/p>\n

Methods:<\/strong> We studied 16 female ME\/CFS patients and 10 healthy controls with supine \"\"\u00a0and we assessed cardiac dimensions and function by conventional echocardiographic and Doppler analysis<\/a> as well as novel tissue Doppler and strain variables.<\/p>\n

Results:<\/strong> A detailed analyses of key variables of cardiac dimensions and cardiac function revealed no significant differences between the two study groups.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong>: In this cohort of well-described ME\/CFS patients, we found no significant differences in echocardiographic variables characterizing cardiac dimensions and function compared with healthy controls.<\/p>\n

(This article belongs to the Special Issue\u00a0ME\/CFS \u2013 the Severely and Very Severely Affected)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cardiac dimensions and function are not altered among females with the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis\/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by\u00a0 Per Ole Iversen, Thomas Gero von Lueder, Kristin Reimers Kardel and Katarina Lien in Healthcare 2020, 8(4), 406 [doi.org\/10.3390\/healthcare8040406]   Research abstract: Background: Myalgic … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6291,6287,5117,6288,6290,6289],"class_list":["post-28367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cardiac-function","tag-echocardiography","tag-katarina-lien","tag-kristin-reimers-kardel","tag-per-ole-iversen","tag-thomas-gero-von-lueder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-7nx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28367"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29115,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28367\/revisions\/29115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}