New Blood Test For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Has 91% Accuracy (ScienceAlert)

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Health
11 September 2023
By Clare Watson

It can take years for people living with chronic fatigue syndrome to receive a formal diagnosis, and they are a favored few. Experts suggest up to 91 percent of people in the US remain undiagnosed, living without medical support for a condition that robs them of energy, brain-power, and a care-free life.

But those statistics could in time improve, if a newly developed diagnostic test stands up to scrutiny.

A team of scientists led by the University of Oxford has just published their preliminary results of a blood cell-based test that can distinguish between unaffected individuals and those with chronic fatigue syndrome (also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME/CFS) with 91 percent accuracy.
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The blood test differentiates between the properties of a type of blood cell called peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in people with and without ME/CFS, using a technique called Raman spectroscopy and an artificial intelligence (AI) tool.
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more: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-blood-test-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-has-91-accuracy

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1. FINALLY!! This is fantastic!!

Dr. Paul Cheney, one of the foremost researchers in the field, was searching for this.

https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cheney

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2. I remember speaking on issues of chronic Lyme Disease--years ago at conference also featuring CFS

speakers. At least with Lyme Disease, we could document prior exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi (the infective agent for LD). With CFS, researchers had the challenge of many many conditions being lumped together (and quite frequently discounted entirely, with many in medicine offering little more than ridicule). It has taken many years, but I'm glad to see progress being made to at least clearly diagnose it--if this work holds up.

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3. Glad to read that the Stanford group is still working on this too

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4. Many doctors thought they were loonies

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5. Great news, thanks.

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6. Some doctors

summarily dismiss diagnoses of chronic fatigue syndrome (also fibromyalgia). Hope this test helps to change things.