SynthesisBMC nephrology2014
Geographical distribution, a risk factor for the incidence of lupus nephritis in China.
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- Mycophenolate mofetil in the treatment of Chinese patients with lupus nephritis: A PRISMA-compliant meta-analysis.Medicine · 2020Pooled it
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- Lupus Nephritis from Pathogenesis to New Therapies: An Update.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- hUC-MSC transplantation therapy effects on lupus-prone MRL/lpr mice at early disease stages.Stem cell research & therapy · 2023Article
- Risk factors for 1-year hospital readmissions in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2023Article
- Lupus nephritis or not? A simple and clinically friendly machine learning pipeline to help diagnosis of lupus nephritis.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2023Article
- Involvement of Gut Microbiota in SLE and Lupus Nephritis.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Sysmex UN2000 detection of protein/creatinine ratio and of renal tubular epithelial cells can be used for screening lupus nephritis.BMC nephrology · 2022Article
- Detection of water-molecular-motion configuration in patients with lupus nephritis: a primary study using diffusion-weighted imaging.BMC nephrology · 2020Article
- Mechanistic insights into environmental and genetic risk factors for systemic lupus erythematosus.American journal of translational research · 2019Review
- Profiling analysis of circulating microRNA in peripheral blood of patients with class IV lupus nephritis.PloS one · 2017Article
- The role of geographical ecological studies in identifying diseases linked to UVB exposure and/or vitamin D.Dermato-endocrinologyReview
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Abstract
backgroundGeographical variation in lupus nephritis epidemiology may indicate important environmental factors contributions to the etiology of lupus nephritis. This paper first describes the epidemiology of biopsy-proven lupus nephritis in China by performing a systematic literature review and the possible social-environmental influential factors.
methodsThe keywords "lupus nephritis", "renal biopsy" and "systemic lupus erythematous" were searched in the three largest Chinese electronic databases and Medline/PubMed. The data of the patients with biopsy-proven lupus nephritis were extracted. The possible environmental influential factors including the population density, ethnic group populations, the ratio of females to males, the average sunshine per year, annual average temperature and annual relative humidity, in different regions of China were analyzed.
resultsForty-one study centers with 34574 renal disease patients, and 3699 lupus nephritis patients met the inclusion criteria. Lupus nephritis accounts for 2.37% to 25% of all renal disease and 27.2% to 80.65% of renal disease associated with secondary glomerular diseases. The male-to-female ratio is approximately 1:5 in lupus nephritis patients. The included period is predominantly from 1995 to 2010. The proportion ratio of biopsy-proven lupus nephritis in all renal disease or in secondary glomerular disease significantly increased with decreasing latitude from the north to the south part of China. The population is predominantly Han Chinese.
conclusionsGeographical distribution appears to be a risk factor for the incidence of biopsy-proven LN in China.
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