MedPage Today (7/27, Walsh) reports, “Individuals with a history of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) had twice the risk of subsequently developing lupus,” investigators concluded after analyzing “data for Medicaid enrollees residing in the 29 most populous states during the years 2007 to 2010.” Investigators “identified 10,942 incident cases of” systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), “who were matched according to age, sex, and race/ethnicity with 109,420 controls.” The findings were published online in Arthritis Care & Research.
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