Lupus Trust UK

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Influence of ethnicity on childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus: Results from a multi-ethnic multicenter Canadian cohort.

We enrolled 213 childhood-onset SLE patients, and ethnicity data were available for 206 patients: white (31%), Asian (30%), South Asian (15%), black (10%), Latino/Hispanic (4%), Aboriginal (4%), and Arab/Middle Eastern (3%). The frequency of clinical classification criteria (malar rash, arthritis, serositis, and renal disease) and autoantibodies significantly differed among ethnicities...