What are the odds of dieng from lupus?

Causes and Risk Factors
The exact cause of lupus is unknown. Many doctors believe that a combination of factors (including genetic heritage, the environment and hormones) leads to its development. While lupus itself is not inherited, it is possible that some combinations of genes make a person more likely to develop the condition. A virus or bacterial infection may then cause the disease to develop.

Although anyone can develop lupus at any age, it mostly affects women in the childbearing years. Common risk factors include:

Gender. Women are about nine times more likely than men to develop lupus.
Race. African Americans are three to four times more likely than Caucasians to develop the disease.
Family history. Having a relative who has lupus increases the odds.
Pregnancy. Lupus sometimes shows up for the first time during pregnancy or shortly after giving birth.
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First of all, the mortality stats for lupus are very sketchy. For example, if you die of lupus nephritis, your death certificate says kidney failure not lupus. If you have a heart attack or stroke because of any of the lupus clotting factors or as a result of years of inflammation leading to atherosclerosis, the death certificate says heart attack or stroke and not lupus. If you die of liver failure because the immune system has attacked the liver, the death certificate will say liver failure.

However, if a lupus patient is well monitored and complies with the treatment regimen and is also proactive about managing the disease, most of us can expect to live a relatively normal life span.I am 57 and still kicking.

You might as well ask what are the odds of space debris hitting you on the noggin or a helicoptor falling on you while you are in the tub. The important thing is not the odds or how you die, but how you live your live and what you do with this very moment, because that's all any of us have.

Time spent wondering if lupus will kill you or a loved one is time that you did not spend paying attention to each other. You can never get that time back.