Brief Report: Lupus-An Unrecognized Leading Cause of Death in Young Females: A Population-Based Study Using Nationwide Death Certificates, 2000-2015.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are used for planning health care policy and allocating resources. The CDC uses these data to compile its annual ranking of leading causes of death based on a selected list of 113 causes. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is not included on this list. Since the ranking is a useful tool for assessing the relative burden of cause-specific mortality, this study was undertaken to rank SLE deaths among the CDC's leading causes of death to see whether SLE is a significant cause of death among females.

Methods

Death counts for the female population of the US were obtained from the CDC's Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database and then grouped by age and race/ethnicity. Dat

SUBMITTER: Yen EY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6105528 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature