Article
Ethnicity and race and systemic sclerosis: how it affects susceptibility, severity, antibody genetics, and clinical manifestations.
Current rheumatology reports - 1 Apr 2003
Reveille John D
Abstract excerpt
Most studies have suggested that ethnic factors impact significantly on systemic sclerosis. Extensive epidemiologic studies have been carried out in white individuals, and limited data suggest that blacks are affected twice as frequently; Japanese patients have a lower prevalence than whites. This highest rate that has been described has been in Choctaw Native Americans. Blacks have a lower age at onset, as well...
Topics
- Autoantibodies
- Disease Susceptibility
- Epidemiologic Studies
- Ethnicity
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Racial Groups
- Risk Factors
- Scleroderma, Systemic