In women with chronic renal disease, pregnancy may accelerate decline in renal function and worsen hypertension and proteinuria, with increased risk of maternal (eg, pre-eclampsia) and fetal (eg, IUGR, IUD) complications, strongly correlating with degree of renal impairment peri-conception. Pregnancy...
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Anyone can get lupus, but 9 out of 10 people with the disease are women. Most of them get diagnosed with it between the ages of 15 and 44. Experts don’t know exactly why lupus affects more women than men, but they think differences in hormones might play a role. Women make much mo...
Family history: Lupus sometimes affects more than one member of a family. But only about 10% of people with lupus have a close relative with the disease. Race: Lupus is more common among women of African American, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American descent. African American and Hispanic wo...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic inflammatory disease that has protean manifestations and follows a relapsing and remitting course. More than 90% of cases of SLE occur in women, frequently starting at childbearing age.
course. Like fever, lymphadenopathy may be secondary to infection or malignancy. When caused by primary SLE disease activity, the lymph nodes may be soft, non-tender, mobile and variable in size; by contrast, cancer-associated lymphadenopathy is characterized by a progressive increase in ...
http://doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2013.829166Auerbach, C., Beckerman, N. L. & Blanco, I. (2013). Women Coping With Chronic Disease: The Psychosocial Im- pact of Lupus. Journal of Social Service Research, 39(5), 606-615. doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2013.8 29166...
According to the Lupus Foundation of America, an estimated 1.5 million people — 90 percent of them women — are currently living with lupus in the United States. While between 80 and 90 percent of people with lupus will likely have a normal lifespan, the disease can raise the risk of...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), commonly referred to as lupus, is a devastating autoimmune disease affecting around 3.41 million people globally. It disproportionately affects women, with approximately 3.04 million cases compared to 0.36 million in men (2). A complex interplay between genetic fact...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with protean manifestations that predominantly affects young women. Certain ethnic groups are more vulnerable than others to developing SLE and experience increased morbidity and mortality. Reports of the global incidence and prevalence of SLE var...