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A Napa, California woman who was diagnosed with lupus when she was 12 years old, and subsequently suffered from drug-induced obesity, underwent a life-saving gastric bypass surgery at Stanford Hospital and Clinics about a month ago.
Stanford is now using the case of Jena Graves as an example to warn others that sometimes taking steroids to cure one problem, may lead to other problems that actually can be worse.
Graves, who is now 19, was a healthy and active girl when she was diagnosed with lupus seven years ago.
According to Stanford, she was given high doses of a steroid drug that helped contain the disease and its symptoms, but which also caused her to gain more than 150 pounds over five years.
Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the human immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks healthy tissue.
According to the medical center, this is not a unique predicament, and millions of Americans suffer from drug-induced obesity, which creates additional physical and mental trouble for the people already dealing with these diseases and illnesses.
http://www.ksn.com/content/news/hea...ptions-to-obesity/mXLLb0L2I0GKVh8gLK5MTg.cspx
Stanford is now using the case of Jena Graves as an example to warn others that sometimes taking steroids to cure one problem, may lead to other problems that actually can be worse.
Graves, who is now 19, was a healthy and active girl when she was diagnosed with lupus seven years ago.
According to Stanford, she was given high doses of a steroid drug that helped contain the disease and its symptoms, but which also caused her to gain more than 150 pounds over five years.
Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the human immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks healthy tissue.
According to the medical center, this is not a unique predicament, and millions of Americans suffer from drug-induced obesity, which creates additional physical and mental trouble for the people already dealing with these diseases and illnesses.
http://www.ksn.com/content/news/hea...ptions-to-obesity/mXLLb0L2I0GKVh8gLK5MTg.cspx