 Hi, I am Dr. Yogesh Singh, I work as a consultant dermatologist at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. Lupus affects people of all nationalities, ethnicity, races, gender and age. Lupus is predominantly a disease of women. It affects women mainly during their childbearing age group, that is between 50 to 44 years. The women-to-men ratio is 9 to 1, that means 90% of patients with lupus are women. Lupus can also affect the children, elderly and rarely men.