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Glenn Frey's struggle against rheumatoid arthritis

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https://www.yahoo.com/movies/glenn-frey-...53581.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.

“You’re kind of getting a one-two punch there; you’re getting both the punch from the disease itself, which plays havoc with you and causes other problems,” Jacobs said. “And then on top of that, you’re trying to manage all of that with drugs that can have some very serious side-effects.”

Compounding matters, Jacobs notes, is that people can take chemotherapy treatment for rheumatoid arthritis for years, longer than they typically do for cancer.

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Pneumonia, Jacobs said, is “absolutely” a common danger under those conditions, though it’s also not uncommon for patients to die of an infection, “because you can’t fight it … everything is more dangerous to you.”

Another, overarching danger attached to rheumatoid arthritis, Jacobs said, is a lack of awareness in the general population as the disease is rarely listed as a cause of death.

“Nobody knows how many people die of complications from things like rheumatoid arthritis,” Jacobs said. “It’s under the radar.”
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(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.
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