Low BMD is a serious warning sign for people with lupus. “People with lupus have higher levels of inflammation, which can cause more rapid bone density loss,” Kamen says. “And, if there is kidney ...

The chronic disease is unpredictable and often has subtle symptoms that are easily missed or attributed to other ailments.

With age, progressive bone loss may result in osteopenia or osteoporosis. Having lupus puts you at an increased risk of osteoporosis, for several reasons. One of these is that some of the ...

and investigated the outcomes of proteasome inhibition in mice with lupus-like disease. The researchers found that, for the depletion of total and long-lived plasma cells in mouse bone marrow ...