PTSD increases your risk of lupus: Harvard study shows link between mental health and debilitating autoimmune disease

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Women who have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or have experienced trauma are nearly three times more likely to develop lupus than others, new research shows. 

A Harvard study of more than 50,000 women over the course of 24 years found that the greater degree of trauma a woman had experienced, the more likely it was that she developed lupus later in life.

There is a greater correlation between PTSD and lupus in women than any other risk factor, including smoking and obesity.

About five million people worldwide suffer from lupus, a chronic, incurable autoimmune disease that causes kidney inflammation and can affect many organ systems.

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