of: the autoimmune condition called lupus. Because of the influences in Will’s life‚ he chose to bring attention to this disease. Did you know that in the past 40 years there have been no new advances in medicine for treating lupus? According to the Lupus Research Institute‚ there are over 1.5 million people in the United States alone that have been diagnosed with lupus ("Lupus Research
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Systemic Lupus Erythematosus‚ or often called lupus‚ is an autoimmune disorder that affects the skin‚ joints‚ kidneys‚ brain‚ and other organs. Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that happens when your body’s immune system attacks its own tissues and organs. Lupus can be difficult to diagnose because of the signs and symptoms often mimic other diseases. The most distinct sign of lupus is a facial rash that resembles a butterfly unfolding across both cheeks.
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Systemic lupus erythematosus‚ often known simply as lupus or abbreviated to SLE‚ is a systemic autoimmune disease or an autoimmune connective tissue disease that can affect any part of the body. As occurs in other autoimmune diseases‚ the immune system attacks the body ’s cells and tissue‚ resulting in inflammation and tissue damage. It is a hypersensitivity reaction of the type III variety‚ caused by antibody-immune complex formation. There are several explanations
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Lupus: When the Body Attacks Cassandra E. Gilles Fortis College (Miami‚ FL) Abstract Systemic Lupus Erythematosus also known as Lupus or SLE for short is a long-term chronic inflammation autoimmune disease. The cause is unknown but research suggests that both genetic and environmental factors are involved. Predispositions such as race‚ gender and age increase the likeliness of being diagnosed with lupus. Lupus is difficult to diagnose because the common signs and symptoms seem to mimic other
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Lupus is a chronic‚ complex and prevalent autoimmune disease‚ that effects more than 1.5 million Americans. It is a disease that is often overlooked‚ misdiagnosed and misunderstood‚ lupus is a chronic condition that is long-term with periods of activity and then remission. Lupus is a disease that attacks your own body. The immune system is the body’s natural defense against disease. In lupus‚ the immune system‚ which is designed to protect against infection‚ creates antibodies that attack the body’s
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Introduction Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that composes many factors that contribute to the manisfestations of SLE. These factors include genetic and epigenetic regulation of gene expression‚ environmental factors‚ hormones‚ and a dysfunction in the immune system. It is estimated that about 1.5 million patients‚ and many other patients worldwide‚ have lupus. The survival rate of SLE patients improved from 50 % to 90% over the last 40 years from an estimated 5-year
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Introduction Lupus is an auto immune inflammatory disease that attacks the body’s tissues and organs and it occurs mostly among females. The inflammation attacks different parts of the body (internal and external) for example the skin‚ brain and joints (Mayo Clinic.2017). Lupus is also known as “The Great Imitator” since the symptoms that come with Lupus mimic those of other diseases (LupusSA.2017) The aim of this research is to find out how Lupus alters a person’s lifestyle. The main changes that
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Cultural and Disease: Lupus Shera Frederick HCS245 May 29‚ 2013 Janice Withycombe Cultural and Disease Paper: Lupus Have you or someone you know been diagnosed with lupus? Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that attacks the body’s own tissue and organs‚ and the body’s systems. The most prominent symptoms of lupus you will start to notice are fatigue‚ fever‚ severe joint pain‚ skin lesions and dry eyes. Some of the bigger issues a person will start to endure are chest pain‚ shortness
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Lupus could be a chronic‚ autoimmune disorder which will harm any part of the body (skin‚ joints‚ and/or organs within the body). The word chronic implies that the signs and symptoms of said disease tend to last longer than six weeks and infrequently for several years. In this particular disease‚ when one thing goes wrong in your immune system‚ that is the part of the body which fights off viruses‚ bacteria‚ and germs‚ our immune system is not able to function properly. Commonly our system produces
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What is Lupus? Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can effect and damage almost any part or role of the body and is chronic which means it can last six weeks to even years. It occurs when for some reason the body’s healthy cells that make up your immune system can no longer distinguish between a virus/ germ and a healthy cell. In a normal immune system the healthy white blood cells send antibodies that attack foreign cells that are in the body‚ but with a Lupus infected immune system the white blood
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