Association of Childhood Abuse with Incident Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Adulthood in a Longitudinal Cohort of Women.

CONCLUSION: We observed significantly increased risk of SLE among women who experienced childhood physical and emotional abuse compared with women who had not. Exposure to childhood adversity may contribute to SLE development. PMID: 31092723 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Rheumatology - Category: Rheumatology Tags: J Rheumatol Source Type: research