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Patients with a rare form of scleroderma that causes more skin thickening have a greater chance of dying from related heart, lung and kidney problems, a new stu

Potential biomarker found for lung disease in scleroderma patients The finding will indicate how aggressively physicians should treat patients with the associated condition. Researchers have discovered a protein that may predict disease severity for a lung condition that often proves fatal to patients with scleroderma. The recent study, published in “Despite interstitial lung disease being the leading cause of death among scleroderma patients, there are very few markers that predict p...

Online mental health intervention improves anxiety in isolated scleroderma patients during the pandemic People with a rare autoimmune disease, who likely experience more serious isolation during a global pandemic, saw their anxiety and depression improve after receiving online mental health intervention through an international study involving investigators from Michigan Medicine. The paper, published in the Lancet Rheumatology, analyzed the mental health progress of over 150 people with scler...