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Subject: It's Official: CFIDS and MS-Lyme are the same disease;
Epstein-Barr
Date: Dec 3, 2011 8:51 AM
CFIDS and MS/Lyme are the same: Epstein-Barr
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238599.php
And all previous antibody studies of
active Epstein-Barr have to be thrown
out:
Discrepancy in EBV-DNA load between peripheral blood and cerebrospinal
fluid in a patient with isolated CNS post-transplant
lymphoproliferative disorder.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22038015
And Related
The most important clue was CDC's denial
of every infectious association, especially
Epstein-Barr in chronic CFIDS or, Chronic
Mono.
The CDC's denials are *always* our best clues.
For decades Uncle Sam has been the best advocate
for disabled and especially the cognitively
impaired. CDC *only* hires REtards.
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238599.php
At the University of Buffalo, researchers conducted the first
investigation to research risk factors for the vascular condition -
chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI). The team
investigated risk factors for CCSVI in volunteers without neurological
disease and found a remarkable similarity between CCSVI and
possibility of verified risk factors for multiple sclerosis (MS). The
study was published Nov. 30 in PLoS One.
In a large control group of volunteers without known central nervous
system disease, the team researched the links between CCSVI and
clinical, environmental and demographic risk factors.
Dr Robert Zivadinov, professor of neurology at the UB School of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and senior author on the
investigation, stated:
"Our results suggest that risk factors of CCSVI in this group of
volunteers are remarkably similar to those of possible or confirmed
importance to MS, but we do not yet understand the whole story."
The current investigation which included 252 volunteers "was designed
to help provide scientists and the MS patient community with new
information that, combined with the results of studies that are still
ongoing at UB, will ultimately help explain CCSVI and its relationship
to MS," explained Kresimir Dolic, a radiologist from the Department of
Radiology, University Hospital, Split, Croatia, and a lead author on
the study. Dolic was a visiting fellow at the Buffalo Neuroimaging
Analysis Center, part of UB's Department of Neurology, where the
investigation was carried out.
CCSVI refers to decreased blood flow to the periphery from the central
nervous system. Researchers believed that this narrowing of veins
decreases blood flow from the brain, changing brain drainage, and
might be a contributing factor to brain tissue injury that is
connected with MS.
However, even though strong interest about CCSVI has been generated
among individuals with MS worldwide, and although independent
scientific investigations, including one of the largest to date being
carried out by Zivadinov and UB colleagues, have suggested a
connection with MS, none have discovered conclusively that CCSVI is
connected with MS.
Due to this, the researchers believed it was vital to continue with
this prospective investigation to find out the risk factors for CCSVI
in people without neurological disease.
The investigation discovered that CCSVI risk factors were more
prevalent in:
* individuals with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
* individuals with a history of mononucleosis, i.e. infected with
Epstein-Barr virus
* individuals with a history of smoking or who smoke
Dr Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, second author on the investigation and
professor of neurology at UB, explained: "All three are confirmed risk
factors for MS." Results indicated, people with CCSVI were 3.9 times
more likely to have IBS than individuals without CSSVI, 1.98 times
more likely to have a history of smoking, and were 2.7 times more
likely to have infectious mononucleosis.
Zivadinov said:
"Our finding that a risk factor that is highly significant for MS
- Epstein-Barr virus, indicated by history of infectious mononucleosis
- is strongly associated with CCSVI, is important.
This is the first time a connection has been found between Epstein-
Barr virus and CCSVI. We know that Epstein-Barr virus is associated
with an increased risk for MS. We also know that having mononucleosis
when you are young increases the MS risk several-fold. So our finding
that Epstein-Barr virus is also correlated with CCSVI is a novel
finding that must be explored in future studies."
Furthermore, although heart disease is not a known MS risk factor
people with heart disease were 2.7 times more likely to have CCSVI,
and individuals with heart murmurs were 4.9 times more likely to have
CCSVI. Zivadinov notes that the investigation's discovery of a weak,
protective effect from using dietary supplements was also documented
and needs additional research.
The researchers caution that the investigation was preliminary and
that further investigations are required in order to confirm and
expand these findings.
The individuals who volunteered were all part of the prospective
Combined Transcranial and Extracranial Venous Doppler Evaluation study
at UB. Volunteers were either independent, or relatives of spouses of
MS patients. According to Zivadinov the controls were purposely
selected from different sources of recruitment.
Zivadinov explains:
"Spouses had no genetic similarity but may have shared
environmental risk factors with MS patients, while relatives of MS
patients had shared both genetic and environmental background.
However, no differences in risk factors of frequency of CCSVI were
found according to the various sources of recruitment."
All volunteers in the study were screened for medical histories and
underwent physical exams and Doppler sonography examinations of the
neck. In addition they responded to an extensive environmental
questionnaire. Volunteers were believed to have CCSVI if they had at
least two positive venous hemodynamic criteria on Doppler sonography.
Written by Grace Rattue
Copyright: Medical News Today
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KMDickson
