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A community for people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), sometimes called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). ME

Since Lemmy is small, this community also serves as a hub for common comorbidities of ME/CFS. Long COVID (Post COVID), POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome), OI (orthostatic intolerance), MCAS (mast cell activation syndrome), and more!

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Breakthrough blood test developed for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) (newatlas.com)

submitted 9 months ago by bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de to c/myalgicencephalomyelitis@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1347621

Researchers believe they have developed the first dedicated blood test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), which has the potential to be a game-changer for millions around the globe who suffer from the debilitating condition.

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[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

These websites really like to oversell research. I skimmed the paper (not the article about the paper), and essentially what they did is get blood from a cohort of people diagnosed as having ME/CFS, and it compared to a healthy cohort. They did a whole bunch of science on the samples to pick out some differences between the two groups. They then classified a separate group of people not used in training to get the model's specificity and sensitivity, and those are the reported numbers.

Importantly, there weren't people with other potential health issues.

Effectively, it's like going into a room that you know is a mix of me/cfs patients and healthy people, and having to classify them. You could probably just ask each person like 5 questions, and their answers would be enough to classify them with 95% accuracy.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. So it's the same as always.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I mean, that's not to say that the markers they uncovered wouldn't be able to discriminate from other potential conditions, it's just that they haven't showed that yet.