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Mónica Fernández
Researcher at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Publications - 26
Citations - 1773
Mónica Fernández is an academic researcher from University of Alabama at Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lupus erythematosus & Cohort. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 26 publications receiving 1623 citations. Previous affiliations of Mónica Fernández include University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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Adolescent onset of lupus results in more aggressive disease and worse outcomes: results of a nested matched case-control study within LUMINA, a multiethnic US cohort (LUMINA LVII).
Lori B. Tucker,A. G. Uribe,Mónica Fernández,Luis M. Vilá,Gerald McGwin,Mandar Apte,Barri J. Fessler,Holly M. Bastian,John D. Reveille,Graciela S. Alarcón +9 more
TL;DR: JSLE patients were more commonly of African-American descent, were more likely to have renal and neurological involvements, and to accrue renal damage, and had lower levels of helplessness and scored higher in the physical component measure of the SF-36 than aSle patients.
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A multiethnic, multicenter cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) as a model for the study of ethnic disparities in SLE.
Mónica Fernández,Graciela S. Alarcón,Jaime Calvo-Alén,Rosa M. Andrade,Gerald McGwin,Luis M. Vilá,John D. Reveille +6 more
TL;DR: Examining health disparities as a function of ethnicity using data from LUpus in LUMINA, a longitudinal study of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, found environmental, socioeconomic/demographic, clinical, and genetic factors play an important role as determinants of the ethnic differences observed.
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Accelerated damage accrual among men with systemic lupus erythematosus: XLIV. Results from a multiethnic US cohort.
Rosa M. Andrade,Graciela S. Alarcón,Mónica Fernández,Mandar Apte,Luis M. Vilá,John D. Reveille +5 more
TL;DR: Poorer long-term prognosis among men with SLE appears to be decisively determined by their accelerated development of damage, particularly early in the course of the disease.
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Systemic lupus erythematosus in a multiethnic US cohort (LUMINA). XXV. Smoking, older age, disease activity, lupus anticoagulant, and glucocorticoid dose as risk factors for the occurrence of venous thrombosis in lupus patients.
Jaime Calvo-Alén,Sergio Toloza,Mónica Fernández,Holly M. Bastian,Barri J. Fessler,Jeffrey M. Roseman,Gerald McGwin,Luis M. Vilá,John D. Reveille,Graciela S. Alarcón +9 more
TL;DR: Smoking, shorter disease duration, older age, disease activity over time, and higher mean daily glucocorticoid dose were identified as additional risk factors for the development of this vascular complication.
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Systemic lupus erythematosus in a multiethnic cohort: LUMINA XXXV. Predictive factors of high disease activity over time
Graciela S. Alarcón,Jaime Calvo-Alén,Gerald McGwin,América G. Uribe,Sergio Toloza,Jeffrey M. Roseman,Mónica Fernández,Barri J. Fessler,Louis Vila,Chul Ahn,Filemon K. Tan,John D. Reveille +11 more
TL;DR: Socioeconomic-demographic, ethnicity, health insurance, behavioural and psychological variables are important mediators of high levels of disease activity in SLE during its course and interventions aimed at modifiable factors may improve the outcomes of SLE.