Ethnicity and APS.
Ethnic and geographic studies have contributed to knowledge of the clinical epidemiology of APS. In general, these studies support the associations of aPL with thrombosis and pregnancy morbidity, with some exceptions. Further investigation is needed to determine whether the exceptions represent interethnic variation in the clinical associations of aPL and thus provide clues to the causation of APS, or alternatively, whether methodologic factors are responsible.
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Department of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112-2822, USA.
D016736:Antiphospholipid Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans