Prevalence of familial systemic lupus erythematosus in Taiwan.
A survey of familial occurrence of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was conducted among 728 first-degree relatives of 102 SLE patients. All of the patients were from the rheumatology ward or outpatient clinic of Kaohsiung Medical College. Ten familial members (9.80%) in the 102 patients with SLE suffered from the same disease. Among them, one (20%) was from the 5 male patient families and 9 (9.28%) were from the 97 female patient families. The overall prevalence of SLE in first-degree relatives of SLE patients was 1.37% (10/728).
Yeh
H M
HM
Department of Internal Medicine, Taiwan Provincial Tainan Hospital, Republic of China.
Chen
J R
JR
Tsai
J J
JJ
Tsai
W J
WJ
Yen
J H
JH
Liu
H W
HW
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology