Looking for an RA study article

[Guest guest]

While at the ER last night with my hubby...he pulled a muscle in his back

lifting weights knowing his back was hurting before he started. The nurse we had

told us she has MS and her sister has RA. She told me how the Gluten Free diet

has worked for them. She told me that they do a lot of holistic treatment and

they are feeling so much better.

What I really want to know....she said her sister found a study saying if you

have RA or any type of an auto immune disease that the persons children are 70%

or up to 70% chance of getting an auto immune disease. Has anyone heard of this

study?

Cheli

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[Guest guest]

Cheli,

False. It is absolutely not true that your children have a 70% chance

of developing an autoimmune disease. Forget you ever heard that.

Even in identical twins the concordance rate - the percentage of cases

where both twins have RA - is only in the neighborhood of 15%.

Not an MD

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:06 AM, HLHSINFO@... <hlhsinfo@...> wrote:

> While at the ER last night with my hubby...he pulled a muscle in his back

lifting weights knowing his back was hurting before he started. The nurse we had

told us she has MS and her sister has RA. She told me how the Gluten Free diet

has worked for them. She told me that they do a lot of holistic treatment and

they are feeling so much better.

>

> What I really want to know....she said her sister found a study saying if you

have RA or any type of an auto immune disease that the persons children are 70%

or up to 70% chance of getting an auto immune disease. Has anyone heard of this

study?

>

> Cheli

[Guest guest]

Ok. I heard that and I was shocked. Do you know if there has been any studies

done with JRA and the likely hood of getting RA as an adult? I have been told

there was none but I thought I would ask the study queen: you!

Cheli

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Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2011 8:39 am

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