Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Autoimmune disease more likely to kill women, CDC reports
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 2nd, 2002
A 20-year study also found that blacks are three times as likely as whites to die from the disease, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
Lupus turns the body's immune defense system against its own healthy tissues, in some cases attacking the kidneys and other vital organs. Many people afflicted also develop severe arthritis.
The CDC found 88 lupus deaths for every 10 million women in 1998, compared with 15 deaths for every 10 million men, said CDC lupus expert...
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