Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Racial differences between blacks and whites with systemic sclerosis.

Current opinion in rheumatology - 1 Nov 2012

Silver Richard M, Bogatkevich Galina, Tourkina Elena, Nietert Paul J, Hoffman Stanley

Abstract excerpt

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Racial disparities appear to exist in the susceptibility and severity of systemic sclerosis (SSc, scleroderma) and are responsible for a greater health burden in blacks as compared with whites. Disparities in socioeconomic status and access to healthcare do not sufficiently explain the observed differences in prevalence and mortality. It is important to determine whether there might be a...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Black or African American
Share to Caveolin 1
Share to Disease Susceptibility

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Health Status Disparities

Share to Hepatocyte Growth Factor

Share to PPAR gamma

Share to Scleroderma, Systemic

Share to Transforming Growth Factor beta1

Source

Open in PubMed Open full text

Identifiers

PMID: 22955018
DOI: 10.1097/BOR.0b013e328356d9dc
PMCID: PMC3756312

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 5 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-05.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 5 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Racial differences between blacks and whites with systemic sclerosis.PMID 22955018Read ↗

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis: The Brazilian Registry of Systemic Sclerosis (BRASSc) CohortSemantic proximity Read ↗

Ethnic influence on the phenotype of French patients with systemic sclerosis.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Ethnicity and race and systemic sclerosis: how it affects susceptibility, severity, antibody genetics, and clinical manifestations.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Racial and ethnic associations with interstitial lung disease and healthcare utilization in patients with systemic sclerosisSemantic proximity Read ↗

Microsatellites and intragenic polymorphisms of transforming growth factor beta and platelet-derived growth factor and their receptor genes in Native Americans with systemic sclerosis (scleroderma): a preliminary analysis showing no genetic association.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Transforming growth factor beta and excess burden of renal disease.Semantic proximity Read ↗

A race-controlled human leukocyte antigen frequency analysis in lupus nephritis. The South-Eastern Organ Procurement Foundation.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Does Keloid Pathogenesis Hold the Key to Understanding Black/White Differences in Hypertension Severity?Semantic proximity Read ↗

Differential gene expression of MMP-1, TIMP-1 and HGF in clinically involved and uninvolved skin in South Africans with SScSemantic proximity Read ↗

Ethnic differences in cytotoxic T lymphocyte associated antigen 4 genotype associations with systemic sclerosis.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Vitamin D-Binding Protein Polymorphisms, 25-Hydroxyvitamin D, Sunshine and Multiple Sclerosis.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Myasthenia gravis in South Africans: racial differences in clinical manifestations.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.