US patients of hispanic and African ancestry develop lupus nephritis early in the disease course: Data from LUMINA, a multiethnic US cohort (LUMINA LXXIV)

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 393-394

  Burgos, Paula I ^a,b   McGwin Jr , Gerald ^c,d   Pons Estel, Guillermo J ^a   Reveille, John D ^e   Alarcón, Graciela S ^a   Vilá, Luis M ^f  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA ANTIBODY;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ETHNICITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LETTER; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; PERICARDITIS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PLEURISY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LUPUS NEPHRITIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751683709     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2010.131482     Document Type: Letter

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