Irish Logic from The Mayo Clinic!

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Hi All

Well I received this tonight and HAD to laugh.

Life expectancy with RA is not good, but if I look on the darker side of

this condition, well that will get me as well! Wonder if their is a

" Irishman " behind this, because it is Irish Logic!

Love and God Bless

Gillian

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>Life expectancy and rheumatoid arthritis:

>People with rheumatoid arthritis have not shared in the general improvement

>in life expectancy over the last four decades, a recent Mayo Clinic study

>indicates. Researchers examined the medical records of all patients with

>rheumatoid arthritis in Olmsted County (where Mayo Clinic is located)

>between 1955 and 1985. They found that while life expectancy improved for

>the general population in that period, it did not change for people with

>rheumatoid arthritis. People with this disease in Olmsted County have a 38

>percent greater risk of death than someone without rheumatoid arthritis,

>they found. For women, the risk was even higher -- 55 percent. That means

a

>50-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis can expect four fewer years of

>life than a 50-year-old woman without the disease. " Patients with

rheumatoid

>arthritis may be functioning better than in the past,'' says Sherine

>, M.D., a rheumatologist and lead author of the study. ''But they

are

>not living longer. We need to better understand why that is.'' The study

>results were published in The Journal of Rheumatology. For more on

>rheumatoid arthritis, see:

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> " Rheumatoid arthritis: Symptoms and treatment "

>http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/9809/htm/rheu.htm

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> " Study: Pessimists die younger "

>Those who see only the darker side of life don't live as long as those who

>take a brighter view of their surroundings and circumstances, a Mayo Clinic

>study indicates.

>http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/0002/htm/pessimistic.htm

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