Abstracts tagged "Access to care and lupus nephritis"

Abstract Number: 1289 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Healthcare Utilization Differences According to Sex Among Children and Adults in Medicaid with Incident Lupus Nephritis
Candace H. Feldman¹, Anna R. Broder², Hongshu Guan³, Anand Kumthekar⁴, Michail Alevizos⁵, Jinoos Yazdany⁶ and Karen H. Costenbader⁷, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Rheumatology-Forchheimer 701N, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ³Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ⁵Medicine, Albert Einstien College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ⁶Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁷Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Past studies suggest that males with lupus nephritis (LN) may have increased rates of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and mortality compared to females. Most…