Gemma Samms and her supervisor Professor Chris Ponting at the University of Edinburgh have published a study in the journal “BMC Public Health”. This article considers the number of people with a diagnosis of the medical code most closely matching the symptoms of ME/CFS in England (International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10: G93.3 for “post viral fatigue syndrome”), and looks at whether rates of this diagnosis vary between different groups of the population.
ME Research UK is currently funding Gemma’s PhD-level research project looking at genetic risk factors for ME/CFS using data from the DecodeME project.
You can read a summary of the contents of Gemma’s newly published study on our website.
