Professor Elaine Dennison, Professor of Musculoskeletal Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant in
Rheumatology within Medicine at the University of Southampton, noted: «Among the challenges in carrying out this study was the great heterogeneity in the RCTs, including in the exercise protocols and in the dosage of supplementation, all of which contributes to the variable findings between studies.
The study, the culmination of more than 10 years of research and published online in the journal Arthritis &
Rheumatology in June, discovered virus - like elements
within the human genome linked to the development of two autoimmune diseases: lupus and Sjogren's syndrome.