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Time to renal disease and end-stage renal disease in PROFILE: a multiethnic lupus cohort.
PLoS medicine - 1 Oct 2006
Alarcón Graciela S, McGwin Gerald, Petri Michelle, Ramsey-Goldman Rosalind, Fessler Barri J, Vilá Luis M, Edberg Jeffrey C, Reveille John D, Kimberly Robert P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Renal involvement is a serious manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); it may portend a poor prognosis as it may lead to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The purpose of this study was to determine the factors predicting the development of renal involvement and its progression to ESRD in a multi-ethnic SLE cohort (PROFILE). METHODS AND FINDINGS: PROFILE includes SLE patients from five...
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