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New Abstract on invasive CPET – Promising outcomes
The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine has posted a new abstract authored by David Systrom et al, which evaluated invasive CPET testing. The test includes iCPET results from 438 ME/CFS patients, 73 Long Covid patients, and 43 symptomatic but otherwise normal controls.
The measurement method is illustrated here from their previous 2023 report [TBA]
The full Abstract within the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine can be found here: https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/ajrccm.2025.211.Abstracts.A7881
An image extract from the article is shown below, showing correlation of pVO2 between each cohort and outcomes, and remarkably similar results from ME and Long Covid:
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