According to UPI, poor African American and Hispanic lupus patients experience more damage by the disease than poor whites. A study from the University of California-San Francisco analyzed the effect of poverty on damage to organs in patients with lupus. Chronic stress associated with poverty may play an important role in why the poor experience more damage. Such stresses may include having to deal with insecurity around food, housing, and medical care.

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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus