{"id":216374,"date":"2025-06-21T06:21:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scale-of-how-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-affects-patients-blood-shown-for-first-time"},"modified":"2025-06-21T06:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:21:51","slug":"scale-of-how-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-affects-patients-blood-shown-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scale-of-how-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-affects-patients-blood-shown-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Scale of how chronic fatigue syndrome affects patients\u2019 blood shown for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scale-of-how-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-affects-patients-blood-shown-for-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People with ME\/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome) have significant differences in their blood compared with healthy individuals, a new study reveals, suggesting a path toward more reliable diagnosis of the long-term debilitating illness. The paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embopress.org\/doi\/full\/10.1038\/s44321-025-00258-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The largest ever biological study of ME\/CFS has identified consistent blood differences associated with chronic inflammation, insulin resistance, and liver disease.<\/p>\n<p>Significantly, the results were mostly unaffected by patients\u2019 activity levels, as low activity levels can sometimes hide the biological signs of illness, experts say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with ME\/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome) have significant differences in their blood compared with healthy individuals, a new study reveals, suggesting a path toward more reliable diagnosis of the long-term debilitating illness. The paper is published in the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine. The largest ever biological study of ME\/CFS has identified consistent blood differences [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}