Rheumatology Network Features Special Coverage of Lupus During Lupus Awareness Month
NORWALK, Conn., Oct. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Medica US announces that Rheumatology Network, a leading online community for rheumatologists, features major coverage of new advances against lupus, which is the focus of Lupus Awareness Month in October.
Lupus, which affects at least 300,000 Americans, is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissues and organs, including the skin, the kidneys, and the brain. Last week the US National Institutes of Health announced a $6 million collaborative research program to understand the reasons for this misguided attack (See NIH Launches Major Collaborative Effort to Understand Lupus and RA).
The goal of the program, in which 11 prominent research groups will share information and data, is to bring together in an organized way the results of many individual efforts to make sense of the biology underlying this autoimmune disease. Among recent findings, Rheumatology Network reports that:
- Lupus patients are at an unusually high risk for pneumonia, perhaps because the same immune defect that makes them susceptible to autoimmunity also affects their risk for lung infection.
- A gene involved in blood clotting helps to explain why the body attacks itself in lupus. Immune cells appear to target some DNA fragments in debris released by dying cells. People who have certain mutations in this gene appear more likely to launch this attack.
- Comparing genetic information from people with lupus and mice bred to have a lupus-like disease is leading toward insights that promise rapid development of better treatments for lupus, according to a recent review of this line of research.
The Lupus topic center on Rheumatology Network will continue to feature updates on lupus research throughout Lupus Awareness Month and beyond.
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