Anita Dr. Kåss

Dr. Anita Kass lost her mother when she was 13 years old. Her mother was diagnosed with a devastating case of Rheumatoid Arthritis shortly after giving birth to Anita. Anita Kass decided she would become a doctor and help people with autoimmune diseases, like her mother. In her first years as a doctor Kass interviewed Patients wit RA of varying degrees. She started to notice a link between pregnancy, menopause and the onset of RA in women. Kass had a hard time getting the hospital she was affiliated with to allow her to conduct research on her theory. The money available usually goes to cardiac disease and cancer. Kass persevered and presented her theory at medical conferences until she found a company willing to give her a research grant.  As someone who has had RA for 26 years, which started at the same time I started going through menopause, I found the information in this book both fascinating and depressing.
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