Anyone read this?
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21641846.2015.1033271?journalCode=rftg20
It's behind a paywall, so I only have the abstract :
Chronic fatigue syndrome and increased susceptibility to upper respiratory tract infections and illnesses
Background: Previous research has suggested that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients report more upper respiratory tract illnesses (URTIs) than controls. Aims: The present study aimed to replicate and extend this research. Method: A prospective study of the incidence of URTIs was conducted. This was similar to previous work involving diary studies but also included objective measures of illness severity (e.g. nasal secretion; sub-lingual temperature) and infection (virus isolation from nasal swabs and antibody changes). Fifty-seven patients with CFS, diagnosed according to the 1994 CDC criteria, were recruited randomly from a volunteer panel compiled of patients who had attended the Cardiff CFS outpatient clinic. A further 57 individuals without CFS were recruited from a general population research panel. Results: The results confirmed that CFS patients report more upper respiratory virus infections and the virological results showed that this was not due to a reporting bias but reflected greater susceptibility to infection.Conclusions: This increased susceptibility to infection in the CFS group can account for the increased reporting of URTIs found in this and previous studies.
On a hilarious /horrifying sidenote, while looking to see if there was a free copy of this anywhere, I found a similar study that was trying to prove ME/CFSers have more upper respiratory tract infections...of psychological origins
Maybe this should have its own thread, but I am not sure it merits one:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17535488
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21641846.2015.1033271?journalCode=rftg20
It's behind a paywall, so I only have the abstract :
Chronic fatigue syndrome and increased susceptibility to upper respiratory tract infections and illnesses
Background: Previous research has suggested that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients report more upper respiratory tract illnesses (URTIs) than controls. Aims: The present study aimed to replicate and extend this research. Method: A prospective study of the incidence of URTIs was conducted. This was similar to previous work involving diary studies but also included objective measures of illness severity (e.g. nasal secretion; sub-lingual temperature) and infection (virus isolation from nasal swabs and antibody changes). Fifty-seven patients with CFS, diagnosed according to the 1994 CDC criteria, were recruited randomly from a volunteer panel compiled of patients who had attended the Cardiff CFS outpatient clinic. A further 57 individuals without CFS were recruited from a general population research panel. Results: The results confirmed that CFS patients report more upper respiratory virus infections and the virological results showed that this was not due to a reporting bias but reflected greater susceptibility to infection.Conclusions: This increased susceptibility to infection in the CFS group can account for the increased reporting of URTIs found in this and previous studies.
On a hilarious /horrifying sidenote, while looking to see if there was a free copy of this anywhere, I found a similar study that was trying to prove ME/CFSers have more upper respiratory tract infections...of psychological origins
Maybe this should have its own thread, but I am not sure it merits one:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17535488
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