What is Lupus?
A chronic (long-term) disease that can cause pain and inflammation in any part of the body.
What is lupus?
What you can take to cure lupus...
What is there is NO cure for lupus?
Number of people living with lupus worldwide.
5 million
Unrelenting exhaustion that isn't relieved by rest. This can impact your emotional and psychological well-being, too.
What is fatigue?
The number of people who are living with lupus in the United States.
What is 1.5 million?
The most common steroid doctors use to treat lupus.
What is prednisone?
The headquarters for the Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) is based in this city.
What is Washington, DC?
The percentage of men who are living with lupus.
What is 10 percent?
Sensitivity to the ultraviolet (UV) rays from sunlight and other light sources, such as indoor fluorescent light.
What is photosensitivity?
The body system that usually fights infections — attacks healthy tissue instead
What is the immune system?
The most common antimalarial for lupus.
What is Hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil)?
The year the LFA was founded.
What is 1977?
The percentage of children who are living with lupus?
What is your 20 percent?
A butterfly-shaped rash on the cheeks and nose.
What is the malar rash?
Anyone can develop lupus. But these certain people are at higher risk for lupus...(gender, ethnicity, family history)
Name two of the most common immunosuppressives for lupus.
The Lupus Foundation of America works to improve the quality of life for all people affected by lupus through these four program areas.
What is research, education, support and advocacy?
Number of new cases of lupus reported each year.
What is 16,000?
The most common way that lupus can affect your lungs where the lining that covers the outside of the lungs becomes inflamed.
What is pleurisy?
These three things lead to the cause of lupus.
Hormones (Estrogen)
Genetics
Environmental factors
The FDA approved this first drug to treat lupus in 1948 and later approved corticosteroids, such as prednisone, which suppress the immune system and reduce inflammation.
What is aspirin?
LFA is focused on achieving these 3 disease-specific outcomes.
1. Reduce time to diagnosis
2. Ensure people with lupus have an arsenal of safe and effective treatments
3. Expand direct services and increase access to treatment and care
Lupus nephritis can occur in this percentage of lupus warriors.
What is 60 percent?
A condition of the cardiovascular system in which the blood vessels contract, restricting the flow of blood, usually in the hands, feet or both.
What is Raynaud's Disease?