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Paul Barrett
#1 Posted : Tuesday, December 17, 2013 5:22:35 PM Quote
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NRAS just posted a link to this article on their facebook page:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/marilyn-linton/rheumatoid-arthritis-women_b_4446398.html

Interesting article. However it fails to answer the fundamental question posed in the article's title.
Paul Barrett

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suzanne_p
#2 Posted : Tuesday, December 17, 2013 8:01:15 PM Quote
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hi Paul,

not posted of late,

i did ask this question at the only NRAS meeting i have ever been to nearly 4 years ago and never got a definate answer,

in fact i asked a lot of if's and but's but again i think this particular disease has no special "targets"

i know some people think it's because they may have had a virus, i asked about weight loss which i had been on, and other's blame some medications .. to me this is one of those illness's you either get or you don't,

sorry my answer sounds slap dash, but that's how i view it.

Suzanne

P.S. i should point out i always thought it targeted Children the most having seen Hospital programme's re Juvenile Idopathic Arthritis,
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gogs
#3 Posted : Wednesday, December 18, 2013 6:36:49 AM Quote
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Hi Paul,

Interesting article but tells us nothing we don't already know.
If the ratio of women to men is so different it has to be biological, but then the variables are enormous making
it possibly many years before they would get any breakthrough in their understandingSad.

Personally I'm not sure if there is any value in finding out because there are still men with it, and what value would it
be to them? Far better to spend time on a project that would benefit all.

I certainly didn't expect to get RA, OA yes, but then I thought I'd never get illSad How ignorant can that be!RollEyes

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#4 Posted : Wednesday, December 18, 2013 9:12:41 AM Quote
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It does explain to a degree why we have more women than men on here I guess.

Interesting article, I like that it is referred to as inflammatory disease as that seems clearer to me.

Angie
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Paul Barrett
#5 Posted : Wednesday, December 18, 2013 9:49:16 AM Quote
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Angiecha wrote:
I like that it is referred to as inflammatory disease as that seems clearer to me.

Angie


Yes that does seem clearer, although as the standard treatments suppress our auto-immune systems, we are not that much better off
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