Living with Lupus
by Philippa Pigache
Lupus is an auto-immune disease affecting mainly women 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. 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, and here Philippa Pigache offers invaluable information and advice on this common autoimmune disease.
Phillipa 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. Her book Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sheldon Press, 2005, won the 2005 special award of the Medical Journalists Association.
128pp
216 x 138 mm
ISBN: 978-0-85969-952-5
Price: £7.99
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