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Objective To explore prognosis and remission-related factors in lupus nephritis (LN) patients.Methods Patients diagnosed as LN by renal biopsy in Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University of Science and Technology between Jan 1,2011 and July 31,2016 were enrolled.All related baseline clinical data was recorded and regular follow-up was performed.Kaplan-Meier curves was used to analyze partial remission and complete remission rates.Log-rank test was performed to compare remission rates of patients with nephrotic-range proteinuria (24-hour proteinuria≥3.5 g) and without nephrotic-range proteinuria (24-hour proteinuria＜3.5 g).Univariate and muhivariate Cox regression analyses were performed to evaluate the remission-related factors in different periods.Results A total of 115 patients,with 88.7％ female and (31.5±9.5)years mean age,were followed up for up to 5 years.During follow-up period 2 patients died and 1 dialyzed.The 6-,12-,24-and 36-and 48-month renal partial remission and complete remission rates were 33.3％,58.2％,71.5％,84.0％,89.6％,and 18.9％,40.5％,67.3％,79.4％,87.0％,respectively.Patients without nephrotic-range proteinuria had higher complete remission than patients with nephrotic -range proteinuria (HR=2.01,95％CI 1.15-3.34,P=0.014),but there was no difference in their partial remission (HR=1.33,95％ CI 0.74-2.43,P=0.341).Multivariate Cox regression model indicated that every 1 g/L increase in baseline level of serum albumin was associated with increased 8％ and 9％ risk,respectively,in partial remission (HR=1.08,95％CI 1.01-1.15,P=0.024) and complete remission (HR=1.09,95％CI 1.01-1.07,P=0.038).Conclusions Around half of LN patients reach remission during 1 year.Patients without nephrotic-range proteinuria have higher complete remission,and serum albumin is a remission-related factors.
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Assessing the impacts of climate changes on water quality requires an understanding of the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals. Evidence from research on alluvial aquifers and coastal watersheds shows direct impacts of climate change on the fate and transformation of trace metals in natural environments. The case studies presented here use field data and numerical modeling techniques to test assumptions about the effects of climate change on natural arsenic contamination of groundwater in alluvial aquifers and mercury bioaccumulation in coastal salt marshes. The results show that the rises of sea level and river base during the warm Holocene period has led to an overall increase in groundwater arsenic concentration due to the development of reducing geochemical