Disseminated Lupus Erythematosus Occurring among Student Nurses*

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IN the course of a follow-up survey‡ on a group of 750 nurses who trained at a large municipal hospital between 1932 and 1946,1 it was found that 3 of these girls had developed and succumbed to disseminated lupus erythematosus. These cases represent 23 per cent of the total mortality among the nurses, the disease being second only to tuberculosis as the major cause of death. The deaths in the entire group have numbered 13, and have been distributed as shown in Table 1.The occurrence of lupus three times in this group is by itself a curious and unexpected finding, . . .

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