Blood test helps predict relapse in patients with autoimmune disease affecting the kidneys
Friday, October 17, 2014 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
Among patients with an autoimmune disease called ANCA-associated vasculitis, autoantibody increases were linked with an 11-fold increased risk of relapse in patients whose kidneys were affected, a study concludes. Among patients without kidney involvement, such increases were associated only weakly with relapses.