ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 16/08/20256) Other studies only included "older adults impacted by COVID-19" where the minimum age was 60 or 65. Examples: Kaczmarczyk 2024 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.... Pleguezuelos 2024 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.... 170
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 16/08/20257) All these categories are very different from the ME/CFS subgroup within Long Covid. Some of the other exercise trials also explicitly excluded patients who did not experience post-exertional malaise (PEM). See for example: Sick 2025 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.... 290
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 16/08/2025Sorry, this should have been: excluded patients who did experience post-exertional malaise (see screenshot) 030
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 16/08/20258) The authors (and editors of the journal) are to blame for combining all these different populations and trials to make clinical recommendations. This is far from best practice. 1100
