ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 06/05/20266) Interestingly, there wasn't a big difference between men and women in the onset pattern. If it were hormonal changes for example, we would expect to find a sex difference as well but that wasn’t the case. 2170
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 06/05/20267) They did find that people in the early onset are more severely affected, have more family members with ME/CFS and are more likely to report an infectious trigger. The latter was particularly the case for glandular fever although this didn’t fully explain the difference. 1150
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 06/05/20268 ) Ryback suggests that future studies should take age of onset into consideration when stratifying cohorts and looking at subgroups. As a next step, she is currently looking at electronic healthcare records in the UK and the diagnoses that precede ME/CFS. 2160
