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What is lupus? What are its symptoms? Who does it affect? Karen Costenbader, M.D., M.Ph., Rheumatologist and Director of the Lupus Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor at Harvard Medical School, explains what causes lupus flare-ups and how it is treated.

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0:00 – Intro
0:16 – What is Lupus?
0:24 – Peak Age for Lupus
0:30 – Body systems lupus affects
0:47 – Causes
1:05 – Symptoms
1:35 – Treatment
2:03 – Flare ups & remissions
2:26 – Our goal

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Understanding Lupus: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment, and Flare Ups | Mass General Brigham

An educational and engaging explanation of what lupus is and how it affects people, showing the difficulty to describe, diagnose, treat and live with this complex and unpredictable disease. It features people with lupus sharing powerful metaphors to describe what lupus means to them and includes a series of animations to help bring each lupus metaphor to life. Learn more at https://www.lupus.org/resources
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