Abstracts tagged "Lupus nephritis"

Abstract Number: 1665 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Associations of Race and Ethnicity with Overall Mortality and Cardiovascular Events Among Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease Due to Lupus Nephritis
Jose A. Gomez-Puerta¹, Sushrut Waikar², Graciela S. Alarcon³, Jun Liu⁴, Daniel H. Solomon⁵, Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer⁶ and Karen H. Costenbader⁷, ¹Section of Clinical Sciences, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Boston, MA, ²Division of Nephrology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Boston, MA, ³Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Boston, MA, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁶Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Patients with SLE and lupus nephritis (LN) are at elevated risks of cardiovascular disease. Past studies have suggested that African American patients with SLE…