{"id":186,"date":"2024-02-27T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/?p=186"},"modified":"2024-04-28T18:39:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T18:39:41","slug":"join-our-research-people-with-severe-me-needed-for-our-hhv-6-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/join-our-research-people-with-severe-me-needed-for-our-hhv-6-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Join our research: People with severe ME needed for our HHV-6 study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are currently seeking individuals diagnosed with <strong>severe ME <\/strong>to participate in our Human Herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) study. We have successfully recruited participants with mild\/moderate ME and healthy controls, however, we&#8217;re still looking for people who are severely affected to take part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Including people with severe or very severe ME is essential for thoroughly investigating the connection between ME\/CFS and HHV-6. Gaining insight into how these groups relate to HHV-6 could provide invaluable understanding of the condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is the HHV-6 Study?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our research team is embarking on a study designed to explore the association and temporal relationship between HHV-6 DNA concentration and the severity of ME\/CFS. Herpesviruses are of interest to researchers in the ME\/CFS community due to their potential to affect the immune system and overall health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How can I help?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are actively seeking people&nbsp;<strong>aged 18-59<\/strong>&nbsp;with <strong>severe or very severe ME<\/strong> to participate in our HHV-6 study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You should not be taking any drugs that could affect the immune system (these include steroids and antiviral drugs).<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You should not have a history of major illnesses including cancer, heart disease or major psychiatric illness.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your ME\/CFS must have been diagnosed by a GP or specialist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We recognise the challenges that individuals with <strong>severe ME<\/strong> experience when participating in studies, so we aim to make it as accessibly as possible. You will receive specially designed packages for saliva collection, allowing for non-invasive and convenient biological sample collection. Over six months, you will return these samples for analysis.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, you will be asked to complete weekly symptom questionnaires online using our new CureME participant portal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to get involved<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Registration is now closed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently seeking individuals diagnosed with severe ME to participate in our Human Herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) study. We have successfully recruited participants with mild\/moderate ME and healthy controls, however, we&#8217;re still looking for people who are severely affected to take part. Including people with severe or very severe ME is essential for thoroughly investigating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,10],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-recruitment","tag-research-study"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}