Open AccessTrends in recent systemic lupus erythematosus mortality rates
Author(s) -
Gordon Mark F.,
Stolley Paul D.,
Schinnar Rita
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
arthritis & rheumatism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1529-0131
pISSN - 0004-3591
DOI - 10.1002/art.1780240602
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , mortality rate , race (biology) , racial group , period (music) , black female , lupus erythematosus , immunology , biology , antibody , botany , sociology , gender studies , physics , acoustics
National death rates from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were calculated for the period 1972 to 1976 according to age, sex, and race and were compared to rates for 1968 to mid‐1972. The time trend in the age‐adjusted death rates from SLE was also analyzed for the entire period 1968 to 1977. The previously reported variable sex and race ratios persist through the recent period, particularly the greater mortality rates among black women during middle and early adulthood. An overall decline in the adjusted death rates in the younger age groups (1–49 years old) in each race‐sex group is seen in the recent period.