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Abstract: Background: Sex differences have been demonstrated in the acute phase of COVID-19. Women (F) were found to be less prone to develop a severe disease than men (M), but…
…completed by people with ME/CFS, and Family Reported Outcome Measure (FROM-16) questionnaire, completed by family members. Results: The mean overall health status on a Visual Analogue Scale for people with…
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Abstract: Background: Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome is a disease that negatively affects patients’ quality of life. Previous research has shown that these patients are commonly not taken seriously when seeking…
Abstract: Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is considered to be associated with post-viral complications and mental stress, but the role of autoimmunity also remains promising. A comparison of autoimmune profiles…
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…S, Nakagawa T, Nishi K. Epipharyngeal Abrasive Therapy (EAT) Has Potential as a Novel Method for Long COVID Treatment. Viruses. 2022 Apr 27;14(5):907. doi: 10.3390/v14050907. PMID: 35632649. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/14/5/907/htm (Full text)…
…be an autoimmune component. There has been an understandable caution amongst some people experiencing long COVID that, by boosting their immune response, a COVID vaccine may exacerbate their symptoms. We…
…controls; BDNF levels were found to be higher compared to healthy individuals only in post-infected-COVID-19 symptomatic and future long-COVID-19 girls, leaving the BDNF levels unchanged in asymptomatic individuals if compared…