Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

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They treated 16 patients with cholesterin and blood pressure medication and it showed a reduction of about 90 % in symptoms.

Here's an article in German about the study: https://www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft/interview-marburger-post-covid-studie-zeigt-erstaunliche-erfolge-v1,cholesterin-long-covid-100.html

Can anyone gleen how bad the patients had it before treatment? I can't get further than the abstract in the full paper.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Interviewer: What symptoms did the study participants have? There is a whole range of symptoms that can be attributed to post-Covid or post-vaccine.

Schieffer: The question of symptoms is a very critical one. We selected the patients very carefully. We assigned the symptoms of our many patients to certain clusters using an AI-based mathematical algorithm. Based on this, we selected the patients and assigned them to this therapy.

Schieffer: The group we examined here had developed an infection-related lipid metabolism disorder; this is the largest group of patients.

I have a lot of reasons to be skeptical of this study based on this interview. Either way, cholesterol and blood-pressure lowering meds are cheap, safe, and widely available, literally any doctor can prescribe those for you right now.