Hydroxychloroquine may protect people with skin lupus from heart and metabolic complications

A study led by investigators from Johns Hopkins Medicine found that some patients with discoid lupus erythematosus—a form of skin lupus commonly diagnosed in young to middle-aged Black women that causes disk-shaped plaques to form on the body—were less likely to experience complications, such as diabetes, hypertension and coronary artery disease if they were prescribed hydroxychloroquine.