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The Four Different Categories of Lupus

admin — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:47:04 +0000

Lupus is a disease that forces the immune system to attack healthy tissue. It affects about 1.5 million Americans. Ninety percent of these Americans are women. Lupus is a very difficult disease to diagnose because each lupus patient can display different symptoms. The number of symptoms can also vary between patients. There are 4 different categories of lupus. [...]

Causes of lupus – systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:45:42 +0000

Genes

No gene or group of genes has been proven to cause lupus. Lupus does, however, appear in certain families, and when one of two identical twins has lupus, there is an increased chance that the other twin will also develop the disease. These findings, as well as others, strongly suggest that genes [...]

Depression and Cardiovascular Disease Linked in Patients with Lupus

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:50:56 +0000

For patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, depression further increases their already elevated risk for cardiovascular disease, researchers said here.

In these patients, depression was associated with a nearly four-fold greater risk of subclinical atherosclerosis (OR 3.85, 95% CI 1.37 to 10.87), Carol Greco, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh, reported at the meeting of [...]