Abstracts tagged "coronary artery disease and lupus nephritis"

Abstract Number: 727 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Increased Risk of Coronary Artery Disease Among Patients with Class III Lupus Nephritis: A Retrospective Study of Patients at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Enid Y Sun¹, Carolina Alvarez² and Saira Z Sheikh³, ¹Internal Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ³University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are at an increased risk for developing coronary artery disease (CAD) compared to their cohorts without lupus. There…