Product Description

This book offers information and advice on this common autoimmune disease. Lupus is an auto-immune disease in which a person's immune system becomes over-active and attacks the body, causing damage and dysfunction and sometimes affecting major body organs. Lupus may be mild or present with more serious, life-threatening complications. Lupus is more common in women between 15 and 40, and 90 per cent of sufferers are women. Symptoms include extreme fatigue, joint pain, muscle aches, anaemia, and general malaise. It may be confused with other disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis. Because of such difficulties with diagnosis, it probably affects more than the 30,000 people in the UK known to have lupus, and the 1.5 million in the US. Drug treatments and awareness of the condition have improved greatly in recent years.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1025698 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 116 pages

About the Author
PHILIPPA PIGACHE is an award winning journalist and acclaimed medical science writer with more than thirty years' experience. She has worked on the Sunday Times, Daily Mail, The Guardian, and for ITN and BBC Science Features. She has written consumer health books on arthritis and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, as well as fiction and is the author of Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sheldon Press, 2005.