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Glenn Frey's struggle against rheumatoid arthritis - elte - Jan 22, 2016 https://www.yahoo.com/movies/glenn-frey-death-rheumatoid-arthritis-medication-lead-disaster-004653581.html. Quote: LaRita Jacobs, a rheumatoid arthritis advocate and Platinum Ambassador with the Arthritis Foundation, explained that rheumatoid arthritis and its treatment can work hand-in-hand to make sufferers more susceptible to other ailments. Unlike other forms of arthritis, it is an autoimmune disease, meaning that your immune system attacks healthy cells. And “by far” the most common treatments for the illness involve chemotherapy, which tends to weaken the immune system. RE: Glenn Frey's struggle against rheumatoid arthritis - C C - Jan 23, 2016 (Jan 22, 2016 05:12 PM)elte Wrote: [...] “Nobody knows how many people die of complications from things like rheumatoid arthritis,” Jacobs said. “It’s under the radar.” Always nice of the less sensational media operatives to occasionally make us aware that the circumstances are more complex than the superficial cover or thumbnail picture indicates, though. |