Illness, Long Covid
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pwlc
🧵 "Two Households, Both Alike in Indignity: An Interview with Anne Ursu"
https://lithub.com/two-households-both-alike-in-indignity-an-interview-with-anne-ursu/
Anne Ursu is the author of Not Quite a Ghost, a middle grade novel about "an eleven-year-old, Violet, who comes down with a post-viral illness"
I'll post a few quotes in the replies.
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@mecfs @longcovid
#MEcfs #PwME #LongCovid #PwLC #ChronicIllness #PostCovid #PostViral #MedEd
"Simple blood test could provide first reliable diagnosis for ME"
https://www.thetimes.com/article/72d96202-0551-4c68-8c79-2ca903caf059
"Discovery of signature patterns of molecules in the blood of ME patients may signify a turning point in diagnosis, typically made by ruling out other illnesses"
@mecfs @longcovid
![Using data from the UK Biobank, they compared blood samples from 1,455 ME patients with those of more than 131,000 healthy people and identified dozens of molecules that differed in concentrations between the two, as well as different cell counts.
The changes in the ME patients, who all had mild to moderate forms of the disease, were largely related to chronic inflammation, insulin resistance and liver dysfunction. The findings were replicated in a group of American patients and healthy controls.
Professor Chris Ponting, of the university’s Institute of Genetics and Cancer, said: “For so long people with ME/CFS have been told it’s all in their head. It’s not. We see [it] in their blood.](/proxy/post_attachment/747040/dbfef65d00.png "Using data from the UK Biobank, they compared blood samples from 1,455 ME patients with those of more than 131,000 healthy people and identified dozens of molecules that differed in concentrations between the two, as well as different cell counts.
The changes in the ME patients, who all had mild to moderate forms of the disease, were largely related to chronic inflammation, insulin resistance and liver dysfunction. The findings were replicated in a group of American patients and healthy controls.
Professor Chris Ponting, of the university’s Institute of Genetics and Cancer, said: “For so long people with ME/CFS have been told it’s all in their head. It’s not. We see [it] in their blood.")