Re: Auto Antibodies Predict Lupus

[Guest guest]

This is important....

It also seems strange...you would think that women who are sick from

implants would have more abnormal blood results then, even while

feeling well! What's strange is that we feel so sick but so many of

us have had normal blood work instead. Something isn't jibing here.

I'd like to think that this means we have a better chance at getting

our health and a normal life back if we can catch this before the

blood work changes! That's the good news!

Personally, I think the answer lies in the lipids and mineral

balance...

but since they aren't asking the right questions where we are

concerned, it hasn't been figured out yet. Hopefully someday soon...

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> http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/290/24/3186

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> > Hampton, PhD

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> > JAMA. 2003;290:3186.

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> > New research funded by the National Institute of

> > Arthritis and

> > Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases indicates that

> > patients with

> > systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) usually have

> > autoantibodies in

> > their blood years before any symptoms arise (N Engl

> > J Med.

> > 2003;349:1526-1533). The results suggest that the

> > presence of

> > autoantibodies, which attack the body's healthy

> > tissues, may alert

> > physicians of a patient's risk of developing lupus

> > in the future.

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> > The study's authors used blood specimens from a

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> > specimens prospectively collected from US Armed

> > Forces personnel,

> > testing samples from 130 individuals collected

> > before they were

> > diagnosed as having SLE, as well as samples from

> > matched controls.

> > They found that

> > 88% of those with lupus had autoantibodies in their

> > blood for months

> > to years before feeling any effects of the disease

> > compared with 3.8%

> > of controls.

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> > SLE is often diagnosed only after considerable

> > tissue damage. The

> > authors propose that...

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