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Article: Euglycemic lupus patients have increased risk for coronary heart disease.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- November 21, 2002
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2002 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Lynn Yoffee, senior medical writer - Researchers have unveiled a previously unknown connection between insulin resistance and coronary heart disease in women who suffer from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) at the American College of Rheumatology 2002 Annual Scientific Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
"In the past 20-30 years, it has emerged that survival with SLE has improved, but the surprising thing about lupus is that these patients are at significantly increased risk for coronary heart disease than the general population," said Ian N Bruce, consultant rheumatologist at the ARC Epidemiology Research Unit, ...