The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has received a one-year, $250,000 grant from the Lupus Research Alliance to investigate how lupus develops and why some people are at greater risk for flare-ups and kidney disease. While no one knows exactly why lupus develops, researchers think a…
In a novel approach to better understand factors affecting clinical trials, researchers conducted clinical trial simulations focusing on African-American and lower-income populations. Almost half of all clinical trials are unable to recruit their target sample size. Additionally, dropout of patients during the trial can be as high as 30 percent.
Research conducted on medical records from over a quarter million adult patients found that African-Americans with connective tissue diseases were twice as likely to suffer complications that increase the risk of a heart attack, stroke, or death. The study, “The Prevalence of Atherosclerosis in Those with…