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Tue 07 Jul 2008Short fuse for pain
It is still not known why ankylosing spondylitis, a chronic inflammatory disease, affects more men than women, writes Ciarán Brennan.
WHEN HUGH Cassidy was in his late 20s, he was a keen runner. But he increasingly found that pain in his lower back was becoming a problem.
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