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Which are the causes of Vasculitis?

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At the 2015 Vasculitis Symposium, it was stated by some of the most knowledgeable rheumatologists studying vasculitis that they still don't know what causes vasculitis, but they are working on it. There's also no cure for many forms. Some doctors believe that it's 50% environment and 50% genetic. In my mind, that means they don't know. They have said that vasculitis is not hereditary, but many family members do have other autoimmune problems, just not vasculitis.

Posted Feb 28, 2017 by Patricia Youngross 1000
There is primary and secondary vascultis, I have primary, I was born with it and my grandfather had a type of vasculitis and my daughter has a type of vascultis so for us it is a genetic disease that runs in the family.

But there are people who get it a form of blood infection (vascular tis) as a passing illness and many have it as a disease without any familiar connection. Although risk rheumatological disease is higher when someone in the family has one

Posted Mar 30, 2017 by Annie Ann-Magritt 1000
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Genetics and lifestyle. Then the pollution environmental

Posted Sep 12, 2017 by Virginia 2000

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