Around 90% of lupus sufferers are female. Here, Laurence White talks to local two women about coping with this debilitating and incurable condition. Lupus is a poorly understood chronic illness which can lead to severe complications and is even potentially life threatening. Yet such is the low awareness of the disease that, according to a recent survey, it can take seven and a Share Go To half years to get a proper diagnosis from the onset of symptoms. It is an incurable autoimmune disease in which the body’s defence mechanism begins to attack itself and can cause inflammation and damage to joints, muscles and other organs. Women are most likely to get the disease accounting for 90% of...
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