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LFA provides answers to questions and gives caring support to people with lupus and their loved ones. The organization works with lupus experts [5] to answer questions, provide tools, resources and referrals to doctors who treat lupus and help guide all those affected by lupus toward a better quality of life.
Below, Shore answers all of EW's lingering questions about the series, from why House's cases were (almost) never lupus to what House is up to now. Adam Taylor/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via ...
Childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (i.e., cSLE), also termed juvenile-onset systemic lupus erythematosus, juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus, and pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus, is a form of the chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (i.e., SLE), that develops in individuals up to 18 years old. [1]
The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) is an American voluntary health organization based in New York City whose mission is to find better treatments and ultimately prevent and cure systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus), a debilitating autoimmune disease, through supporting medical research. The organization was born from the merger of three ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 200,000 people in the U.S. have lupus, though the Lupus Foundation of America puts the total much higher: roughly 1.5 ...
An estimated 5 million people worldwide have some form of lupus disease. [23] 70% of lupus cases diagnosed are systemic lupus erythematosus. [23] 20% of people with lupus will have a parent or sibling who already has lupus or may develop lupus. [23] about 5% of the children born to individuals with lupus will develop the illness. [23]
As usual, the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence -- or NICE -- isn't playing very nice. The agency in charge of determining what drugs are covered by the U.K.'s national ...
Men have higher mortality. [8] SLE significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, with this being the most common cause of death. [5] While women with lupus have higher risk pregnancies, most are successful. [1] Rate of SLE varies between countries from 20 to 70 per 100,000. [2] Young women are affected about nine times more often ...