Researchers have found distinct biological differences in a small group of people with ME/CFS compared to healthy controls, providing evidence that the condition is unambiguously biological.
In 2016, years before long COVID was a thing, the US National Institutes of Health , the largest single public funder of medical research in the world, launched a study into a long-neglected and puzzling condition:Eight years later, the results of that study are finally out.
In one of the most thorough investigations to date, researchers took a deep dive into a small group of 17 people who developed ME/CFS after an infection and found distinct biological differences compared to 21 healthy controls. "Overall, what we show is that ME/CFS is unambiguously biological, with multiple organ systems affected," neurologist Avindra Nath, lead researcher of the study and clinical director of NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS),ME/CFS as a psychosomatic condition that was 'all in patients' heads'. Now there is little doubt: a host of biological changes underpin ME/CF
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