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Was

the King of pop really felled by prescription drug use and abuse ?

Those who speculate on this theory could be dead wrong! Instead,

could very well be the victim of the lupus he suffered from.

Did you know that , was the victim of a rare

auto-immune disease called lupus? Yes, he was according to his

Wikipedia autobiography and as it turns out -- lupus sufferers

frequently die in their 40s and 50's from sudden heart attacks, caused

by atherosclerosis. Let me explain.

Lupus causes inflammation in many of the body's organs including the

arteries of the heart. The inflamed arteries then cause cholesterol to

deposit on their walls.These deposits cause scarring, and the whole

process primes lupus victims to have massive heart attacks, which are

often asymptomatic beforehand.

Mild lupus sufferers, like , are actually more at risk for

having a fatal heart attack, according to Dr Lockshin, a

rheumatologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.

The reason for this is because people who have a mild case of lupus are

less likely to take any of the medications which would prevent

inflammation of the organs.

Now if you don't believe that had lupus consider this:

vitiligo, which also suffered from, resulting in the famous

pigment loss in his skin, is also an auto-immune disease.

Coincidentally, vitiligo and lupus are often diagnosed in the same

person, explains Dr. Lockshin. In other words, it would not have been

unusual for to have suffered from both ailments.

Here's another key fact: African-Americans are four times more like

to be lupus victims than Caucasians. However, lupus is far more common

in women than men. Still men, do get it.

So would prescription drug abuse have exacerbated a case of lupus?

Only if demerol was injected intravenously, would it also have damaged

's heart, according to Dr. Lockshin. Demerol injected into his

muscles would not have played a deadly role and neither would drugs

like Xanax and Zoloft.

Lupus also frequently causes inflammation and pain in the joints,

which could explain why was sometimes seen in a wheel chair.

This might also explain why had not performed in years. Maybe

it wasn't just the stress of the child molestation charges and trials

that forced him to put his performance career on hold. Maybe, he was

simply unwilling to share his medical problems with the public.

Until a possible lupus-induced heart attack felled him, the King of

Pop may have preferred to preserve the illusion that he was still, at

least in some ways, invincible!