High rise in Re-hospitalization of Lupus Patients

A study recently shows that patients with lupus disease are getting re-admitted just after a month of discharge with the ratio of 1 is to 6 hospitals.

The reason of readmission is the dreadfulness of the disease. Dr. Jinoos Yazdany , lead researcher and associate professor of medicine at the University of California , San Francisco addresses this issue by saying that re-hospitalizations could be lessened by some improved strategies and providing better health care services.

Lupus is a persistent which damages any part of the body. In this disease, there is a severe damage in the immune system. Research and studies are unable to answer underlying causes of it, but there is evidence that though drugs are available to conceal the immune system and control lupus but with side effects.

Few of the things associated with Lupus are the following:

Women are more likely to get Lupus 10 times more than men.

Affects lower socioeconomic groups, racial and ethnic minorities

Environmental, biological, psychosocial and even health care are few of the factors.

Major concern above all is the infection caused by the same drugs which is used for healing the disease so that lupus can’t invade the body also cuts down the person’s strength to beat off viral and bacterial infections.

The data shows 16.5 patients were brought to the hospitals again after 30 days of admission.

“If you have more signs of lupus infected badly then you are likely to be treated with more advanced immunosuppressant which will increase the chances of infection,” said Dr. Joan Merrill, medical director of the Lupus Foundation of America and Head of Clinical pharmacology research at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.” It is going to heighten your risk of re-hospitalization, and if by any chance the treatment goes wrong then there can be an organ failure.”

In fact, more serious disease was due to readmission in the hospitals. Condition led to readmission is: low blood platelet count; kidney inflammation; an inflammation of the linings of the organs.

Others noticeable thing was Black and Hispanic patients were seeing re-admitted more than white people comparatively which shows a discrimination or unequal service regarding health care.

Yazdany added that there is more to educate people on Lupus disease and managing the patients who are suffering with it.

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