Study on chronic fatigue syndrome explores immune dysfunction
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health performed deep phenotyping in both patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy volunteers and completed a 70-page manuscript that researchers said took almost eight years and over $8 million to complete.
It has more than 70 authors from 15 of the 27 NIH institutes.
In 2022, 4.3 million American adults reported having myalgic encephalomyelitis, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics.
The inflammation associated with the condition is what makes patients feel like they’re constantly battling the flu, researchers say.
Full story: Nature Communications
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