Posted by Lou Pilder on June 9, 2005, at 22:16:42
In reply to Re: Lou's request to Dr. Hsiung » Lou Pilder, posted by All Done on June 9, 2005, at 19:32:40
All Done,
You wrote,[...can you explain...Lupus?].
I have a background in life insurance and know about probibility in relation to afflictions.
Lupus is an affliction where the body attacks itself as an autoimmune disease.
Statistically, deaths of people with lupus years ago were not known likely because there was not a diagnosis of lupus many years ago like there is now. There is the potential for lupus to be fatal and there have been a great increase of the number of deaths ascribed to lupus in the past years, probably because there is a better diagnosis available to determine that lupus was the cause of death. Also, drugs that are available popularly today that were not, perhaps, popular years ago can cause lupus.
Women are the most gender to aquier lupus, and I think that the poster in question could more likely be a woman. I had clients that I could not insure because they were diagnosed as having lupus.
I will never forget the one young woman on crutches and her husband when I told her that our company had to decline her for life insurance because of her diagnosis of lupus.
Is the diagnosis of lupus a death sentence? I wrote that there is the potential. Is there a cure for lupus? I know of none.
Below is a link to explain more about lupus.
Lou
http://www.4women.gov/Lupus/1.htm
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