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Medical Forum / General / General / August 2005Paper on CFS
There is a new paper by Dr. Peckerman and associates published in "THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES" that claims that all patients who are disabled by CFS have very low Cardiac output. You can read the article here: www.cfids-cab.org/cfs-inform/Coicfs/peckerman.etal.03.pdf Was this study well designed and well executed? Is what the study says likely to be true? Do you have any comments on the study? curious guy <curious_guy@hushmail.com> wrote in part: >There is a new paper by Dr. Peckerman and associates published in "THE >AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES" that claims that [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >Was this study well designed and well executed? Is what the study >says likely to be true? Do you have any comments on the study? I've only had a minute to glance at it, but the first concern would be that reduced cardiac output may just be a result of reduced activity level. -- Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA >curious guy <curious_guy@hushmail.com> wrote in part: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >would be that reduced cardiac output may just be a result of >reduced activity level. They do address that in the study. They said: Reduction in cardiac output in patients with CFS could also be the effect of deconditioning. However, this seems unlikely, because there seem to be no significant differences in physical fitness between patients with CFS and sedentary control subjects.33 Furthermore, if deconditioning were the cause, the patients with severe CFS would be expected to report greater reduction in activities, which was not the finding of this study. Does this adequately address your concerns? Eat a pickle ~ ! > Eat a pickle ~ ! Kosher? L. Kosher? Whichever has the most vinegar and salt, as hypo BP underlies CFS often. I recall a study a while back indicating one pickle a day helped CFS quite a bit. Harmless, too. |
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