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Study pins down number of Americans with most common form of lupus – EurekAlert
Just over 200,000 Americans suffer from systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE, a condition in which the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks its own healthy tissues,…
Just over 200,000 Americans suffer from systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE, a condition in which the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks its own healthy tissues, especially joints and skin, a new study shows.
Led by a researcher at NYU Grossman School of the Medicine, the study provides the first national estimate of how widespread the autoimmune disease is since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) set up a half dozen state registries to track the illness more than a…
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