with me is matthew bartels, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation. and while you're a medical center in new york, welcome back to our program. matthew. as we just saw, the report abnormalities in the blood could be a cause of long could it, could this finding help in the prevention or even therapy of it? this is a very interesting finding because, you know, we have not really to this point understood the exact causes of long code and it is a systemic type of disease and manifests in many ways as you have in your intro piece. the idea is that something that the blood of malady may contribute to a systemic diseases is not at all something that would be unusual. many people are familiar with sickle cell and although that's a genetic condition and very different having ever maladies with the blood cells, they are cause many effects including central neurological symptoms, t cause muscular skeletal complaints problems with the joints. so having something that is present all throughout the body like blood showing these long term abnormalities may be a very

with me is matthew bartels, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation. and while you're a medical center in new york, welcome back to our program. matthew. as we just saw, the report abnormalities in the blood could be a cause of long could it, could this finding help in the prevention or even therapy of it? this is a very interesting finding because, you know, we have not really at this point understood the exact causes of long code and it is a systemic type of disease and manifests in many ways. as you add in your intro piece. the idea that something that the blood malady may contribute to a systemic diseases is not at all something that would be unusual. many people are familiar with sickle cell and although that's a genetic condition and very different having ever maladies with the blood cells, they are cause many effects, including central neurological symptoms of tea cause muscular skeletal complaints problems with the joints. so having something that is present all throughout the body like blood showing these long term abnormalities may be a very i