Thirty patients with newly diagnosed and chemotherapy naïve active MM, along with 19 healthy participants of comparable age and sex were recruited, after diagnosis of MM; blood samples were collected from both patients and controls for flow cytometric detection of CD4+, CD8+, CD4+PD1+, and CD8+PD1+T cells, total MPs, CD138+ MPs, and platelet MPs. Here, CD4 is linked to Miyoshi myopathy.