Allyson
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Interesting post in form a fb friend
Every time I've heard Mary Dimmock speak she's been impressive:
"CDC states that Oxford, Fukuda, Canadian and the ME-ICC “identify similar pools of patients”.
But Fukuda does not require PEM and Oxford only requires 6 months of fatigue and allows psychiatric illness.
Numerous studies have shown that these definitions are not all the same patients.
Yes, ME is heterogeneous but this heterogeneity is a manufactured artifact of inappropriately combining all these diverse definitions and conditions into one clinical entity called CFS."
Link to short article
http://thoughtsaboutme.com/2013/05/23/mary-dimmocks-may-2013-cfsac-testimony/
cheers
Ally
Every time I've heard Mary Dimmock speak she's been impressive:
"CDC states that Oxford, Fukuda, Canadian and the ME-ICC “identify similar pools of patients”.
But Fukuda does not require PEM and Oxford only requires 6 months of fatigue and allows psychiatric illness.
Numerous studies have shown that these definitions are not all the same patients.
Yes, ME is heterogeneous but this heterogeneity is a manufactured artifact of inappropriately combining all these diverse definitions and conditions into one clinical entity called CFS."
Link to short article
http://thoughtsaboutme.com/2013/05/23/mary-dimmocks-may-2013-cfsac-testimony/
cheers
Ally