which involves the worsening of lupus symptoms that include: People with dark-pigmented skin who have lupus are more prone to ...

Lupus and hives sometimes go together ... On light skin, hives generally appear pink or red. On the darker skin of Black or brown people, they may be the same color as your skin, slightly lighter ...

Singer Muni Long details living with lupus and how she struggles with symptoms in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE.

This Black History Month, we are focusing on individuals’ lupus stories and how this ‘invisible’ disease affects people’s outward appearance with skin issues and hair loss. Nadine Kidd's lupus journey ...

But literally my skin will turn like a light, ashy color.” Around 1 in 250 Black women will develop lupus during their lifetime and will experience it more severely. While Long can manage some ...

Black patients, particularly women, have died from systemic lupus erythematosus at disproportionately higher rates despite overall declines in mortality over the past 20 years, according to data ...

Ultraviolet light, which spans wavelengths between 40-400 nanometers, is thought to be the portion of light most frequently responsible for the skin lesions that people with lupus develop. However, ...

My skin will get really pale ... According to the Lupus Foundation of America, the disease disproportionately affects Black women, who are three times more likely to develop lupus than White ...