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February is American Heart Month This month, the Foundation urges you to follow your heart — and learn more about the link between lupus and heart disease. Heart disease is the nation’s number one killer of women. But many people are unaware that lupus dramatically raises this risk. Young women with lupus in particular have had discouraging headlines to read recently, with studies showing that despite their youth, the disease automatically makes them as much as 50 times more likely than other young women to have a heart attack or angina (chest pain). Cardiovascular disease and stroke threaten the lives of more than a third of women with lupus. According to key research, women with lupus under age 40 are nearly five times more likely to have atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) than their healthy, same-age peers. And that’s regardless of conventional risk factors like smoking, high cholesterol, advanced age, high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes.
To learn more about how lupus affects the heart,
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Your Doctor, Your Partner in Health Get tips for improving your relationship with your doctor in the latest issue of The Cooperative Corner — the newsletter of the Lupus Cooperative of New York.  Lupus is
a lifelong disease. It may get quiet and go into
remission, but it doesn’t just go away for good. To
deal with this uncertainty and all the health
problems that can come up when you have lupus, it’s
worth spending the time and effort to form as strong
and positive a relationship as possible—a
partnership—with the people who will be treating you
along the way.
Read the article here » En español » Other recent topics in The Cooperative Corner: + New Lupus Support Group in Brooklyn! Beginning this month, the Lupus Cooperative of New York (LCNY) will partner with New York Methodist Hospital to host a new bilingual support group where people with lupus can meet others with the disease and share strategies for coping. Attendees will also get to learn more about the LCNY's new Brooklyn Division. Friends and family of lupus patients are welcome. First Meeting: Wednesday, February 15, 2007 at 7 p.m. Learn More » + Why Should You Care About Clinical Trials? En español » + Looking Out for Lupus Flares En español » + Bone Up on Lupus and Osteoporosis En español »
Living with Lupus
Lupus
at Work
Want to read more stories of people with lupus?
Visit the Living With
Lupus section on our website. This feature
explores emotional, psychosocial and lifestyle issues in
lupus through the personal stories of New Yorkers
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Buy Your Tickets Today and Help Us Get Closer to the Cure! GRAND PRIZE - $10,000 Second Prize - $1,000* *3 winners Purchase Tickets Online Now » Catch the Early Bird Special: If you buy 4 tickets before Monday, April 30th, you'll get 1 free (5 for $100)! Raffle Drawing: Friday, June 15, 2007 Note: Total prize money awarded will be reduced proportionately if fewer than 1,750 tickets are sold. |
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+ Attention New York Metro Area Lupus
Researchers:
S.L.E. Lupus Foundation 2007 Research Grant Request for Applications Are Available » Read more about the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation Research Program »
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