Epidemiology of systemic lupus erythematosus: Capturing the butterfly

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 265-272

  Lim, S Sam ^a   Drenkard, Cristina ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ARTICLE; HOSPITALIZATION;

HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 53249152207     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-008-0043-4     Document Type: Review

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