{"id":225306,"date":"2025-11-18T01:18:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/strange-structures-found-lurking-in-the-blood-of-people-with-long-covid"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:18:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:18:55","slug":"strange-structures-found-lurking-in-the-blood-of-people-with-long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/strange-structures-found-lurking-in-the-blood-of-people-with-long-covid","title":{"rendered":"Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/strange-structures-found-lurking-in-the-blood-of-people-with-long-covid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A hidden physical change in the body may be helping to drive the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/revealed-women-face-much-higher-risk-of-long-covid-but-why\">prolonged malaise<\/a> some people experience after contracting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/coronavirus\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">COVID-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Analyzing blood samples from patients with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/life-with-long-covid-comparable-to-parkinsons-and-stroke\">long COVID<\/a>, a team of medical researchers has identified unusual microscopic structures that may contribute to symptoms such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/covids-hidden-toll-full-body-scans-reveal-long-term-immune-effects\">brain fog and fatigue<\/a>. If this is the case, it offers a hopeful target for future treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study shows a robust association between biomarkers indicative of thromboinflammatory activity and long COVID,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.70613\">the team writes in a paper<\/a> led by geneticist Alain Thierry of Montpellier University in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hidden physical change in the body may be helping to drive the prolonged malaise some people experience after contracting COVID-19. Analyzing blood samples from patients with long COVID, a team of medical researchers has identified unusual microscopic structures that may contribute to symptoms such as brain fog and fatigue. If this is the case, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225306","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=225306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}