Male versus female lupus: A comparison of ethnicity, clinical features, serology and outcome over a 30 year period

Lupus

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1041-1048

  Renau, A I ^a   Isenberg, D A ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

clinical features; death; renal failure; serology; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LA ANTIGEN; LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RO ANTIBODY; SM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; ALOPECIA; ARTHRITIS; ASIAN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHINESE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUTH ULCER; MYOSITIS; NEPHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONDON; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865073273     PISSN: 09612033     EISSN: 14770962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961203312444771     Document Type: Review

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