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More ESRD in Blacks With Lupus Nephritis (CME/CE)

MedPage Today Surgery  Tue, 03/29/2011 - 14:55

(MedPage Today) -- Significant racial and age-related differences exist in rates of lupus-related end-stage renal disease (ESRD) -- with African Americans having up to a seven times greater incidence than whites, analysis of a national database found.


 

Pregnancy Linked to Critical H1N1 Illness (CME/CE)

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Sat, 03/20/2010 - 08:30

Pregnant or postpartum women were seven times more likely than other women of childbearing age to be admitted to intensive care if they had the H1N1 pandemic flu, Australian and New Zealand researchers said.