As Black women ... impacted by lupus—and our relationships are the center of our battle with this disease. According to an NIH study, African-Americans in the U.S. have three to four times ...

For Black, African American ... In SLE, lupus symptoms affect multiple body systems. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Black and Hispanic women more often receive ...

“Lupus is a significant chronic disease in African American women,” Edith M. Williams, PhD, MS, of the department of public health sciences at the University of Rochester Medical ...

Race: Lupus is more common among women of African American, Asian ... serious infections (with a low white cell count), or easy bruising or bleeding (with a low platelet count).

A new study investigating the potential influence of social, behavioral and environmental factors on how genes work (gene expression) and affect lupus outcomes in African American women is underway.

African Americans living with lupus are five times ... clues on the development of therapies to treat the disease. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disorder with a markedly higher prevalence in women and ...

With a primary focus on reaching Black/African American women who are disproportionately impacted by lupus, IMPACT+ is designed to reduce barriers to clinical trial enrollment and increase ...

It’s also two-to-three times more common in African American women, per Johns Hopkins Medicine. He emphasized that lupus is something patients have to learn to live with throughout their life.