Re: to Debby from Beth--Carl Walters

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nope, he and his family are from Battle Creek, MI

[ ] Re: AIH and teachers> > > In a message dated 9/27/01 9:49:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time,> > jeanfran@m... writes:> > Dear Harper:Thanks for your input. Initially I agreed with the> incidence of women in teaching being the explanation and that may> still be true. But, if one assumes that nursing was included in the> study(I do not know if it was)--the majority of those were women too> in recent past, and may still be. If one buys this assumption--then> the statistics about teaching become even more mysterious. They> (nurses) , too, would often have been exposed to viruses etc. at an> early age and should exhibit similar mortality rates. I would like> to know if they had been included in the study. As for the Epstein> Barr virus, I had mono as a young teacher and seem to remember many> on the old AIH website who were too, but not all. I wonder how many> on this new site had or were exposed to this virus. I've never seen> it mentioned since I've been monitoring the site. Jean> >> > > I see from the posts that several of you are teachers or retired> > > teachers like myself. If any of you get the InFocus magazine put> out> > > by AARDA--it has an interesting article about the frequency of> AIH in> > > teachers, especially high school teachers. I will quote it here--> > > "...overall mortality from 13 autoimmune diseases(these are not> > > named), which tend to be chronic but not usually fatal, was 2.3> > > percent for teachers. compared to 1.7 percent for other> professions."> > > The study was done using death certificates compiled by the> National> > > Inst. of Occupational Safety and Health by a University of CT> > > researcher, Dr. Walsh. Perhaps for those of you who are> interested> > > the AARDA site may summarize it on line.> >> > I've long noticed that many people in this group are teachers. I've> > attributed that not to the incidence of the disease among teachers> but to> > self-selection among those who choose to join the group. However,> the> > article mentioned implies that the incidence is higher among> teachers. (The> > article doesn't speak directly to incidence, but to mortality> rates.)> >> > Frequency of a disease doesn't indicate a cause-effect> relationship, of> > course. A rather unconvincing hypothesis I come up with is that> those with> > autoimmune diseases might choose teaching in the mistaken belief> that this> > career would well accommodate chronic, non-contagious disease.> >> > A more likely explanation is that those with autoimmune disease are> most> > often women -- and so are teachers.> > Harper>>>>

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Thanks! Just wondering!

debby

[ ] Re: AIH and teachers> > > In a message dated 9/27/01 9:49:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time,> > jeanfran@m... writes:> > Dear Harper:Thanks for your input. Initially I agreed with the> incidence of women in teaching being the explanation and that may> still be true. But, if one assumes that nursing was included in the> study(I do not know if it was)--the majority of those were women too> in recent past, and may still be. If one buys this assumption--then> the statistics about teaching become even more mysterious. They> (nurses) , too, would often have been exposed to viruses etc. at an> early age and should exhibit similar mortality rates. I would like> to know if they had been included in the study. As for the Epstein> Barr virus, I had mono as a young teacher and seem to remember many> on the old AIH website who were too, but not all. I wonder how many> on this new site had or were exposed to this virus. I've never seen> it mentioned since I've been monitoring the site. Jean> >> > > I see from the posts that several of you are teachers or retired> > > teachers like myself. If any of you get the InFocus magazine put> out> > > by AARDA--it has an interesting article about the frequency of> AIH in> > > teachers, especially high school teachers. I will quote it here--> > > "...overall mortality from 13 autoimmune diseases(these are not> > > named), which tend to be chronic but not usually fatal, was 2.3> > > percent for teachers. compared to 1.7 percent for other> professions."> > > The study was done using death certificates compiled by the> National> > > Inst. of Occupational Safety and Health by a University of CT> > > researcher, Dr. Walsh. Perhaps for those of you who are> interested> > > the AARDA site may summarize it on line.> >> > I've long noticed that many people in this group are teachers. I've> > attributed that not to the incidence of the disease among teachers> but to> > self-selection among those who choose to join the group. However,> the> > article mentioned implies that the incidence is higher among> teachers. (The> > article doesn't speak directly to incidence, but to mortality> rates.)> >> > Frequency of a disease doesn't indicate a cause-effect> relationship, of> > course. A rather unconvincing hypothesis I come up with is that> those with> > autoimmune diseases might choose teaching in the mistaken belief> that this> > career would well accommodate chronic, non-contagious disease.> >> > A more likely explanation is that those with autoimmune disease are> most> > often women -- and so are teachers.> > Harper>>>>