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Autonomic function in chronic fatigue syndrome with and without painful temporomandibular disorder

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Can anyone help me digest this?

Also on another note, is this section of Phoenix Rising the same as s4me.info, or at they stand alone pages?

I have done a forum search on the above study and it hasnt come up. Full text link below.

My Q about it is:

"The CFS + TMD group had significantly higher HF and significantly lower LF at rest than the other two groups. "

(I cannot assume these pts had para dominance, because the values are compared to other groups, and they dont give the actual values in the full text).

"Almost one-third of CFS patients screened positive for TMD and this was associated with greater evidence of parasympathetic dysfunction "

...(without the values how can i know what they are referring to? They already said the CFS+TMD group had higher HF and lower LF values, so if that group has para dysfnction, then surely the CFS-TMD control group who it insinuates had lower HF and higher LF (than +TMD) then it is the CFS-TMD group who have more para dys?

Unless. they are suggesting that a higher HF and lower LF is a para dysfunction? Which makes no sense to me!!

Can anyone help? Should I chuck this one out with the bathwater?

Full text provided here:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...54ftOdvnxc7Zjbou28mKas4S3jlvtshj-O6AVuTqqs9uM