A new research has shown that the enzyme responsible for nitric oxide production stops working properly when exposed to serum from lupus patients. The research findings were published in an article in the Journal of Lupus Science & Medicine. Patients with lupus an inflammatory disease in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissues are on average seven to nine times more likely to develop heart disease than the general population. Younger women with lupus are 50 times as likely to develop the disease as young women without the disease. The endothelium the single layer of cells lining blood