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General & Internal Medicine","Medical Research General Topics
SLE has a high prevalence in Afro-Caribbean populations but has been report
ed to be rare In west Africa. We assessed prevalence (per 100 000) of SLE i
n women in an area of south London and estimated it to be 177 (95% CI 135-2
20) in Afro-Caribbeans, 110 (58-163) in west Africans, and 35 (26-43) in Eu
ropeans. The high prevalence of SLE in recent migrants from west Africa sug
gests that the disease is not rare in west Africa, and that there is a gene
tic basis for the high risk of SLE in people of west African descent compar
ed with other groups.