Socioeconomic factors in lupus erythematosus

Autoimmunity Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 242-246

  Meller, Stephan ^a   Homey, Bernhard ^a   Ruzicka, Thomas ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cutaneous lupus erythematosus; Socioeconomic factors; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; COST OF ILLNESS; DIALYSIS; DISABILITY; DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCOME; INSURANCE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; MEDICAL CARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, CUTANEOUS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; PROGNOSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 18944372814     PISSN: 15689972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2004.11.008     Document Type: Review

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