Lupus & Connective Tissue Diseases
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Baseline patient-reported physical function predicts SLE-related mortality
There’s utility in screening and tracking of patient-reported outcomes about physical function, a study finds.
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Childhood-onset SLE has major impact in adult life
Study highlights the need for preventive screening measures to be put in place before the age of 30.
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Study supports effects of smoking, drinking on SLE risk in black women
Small numbers of confirmed SLE cases in a cohort from the Black Women’s Health Study limited the study’s statistical power.
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Prolonged antimalarial therapy linked to elevated cardiac biomarkers, cardiomyopathy
“The majority of patients with SLE should be considered at risk because most of them receive long-term maintenance therapy.”
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Low disease activity in SLE compares favorably with clinical remission as an acceptable goal
Study looked at 10-year outcomes in sustained clinical remission or low disease activity after disease inception.
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Autoimmune connective tissue disease predicted by interferon status, family history
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Abatacept loses ALLURE in lupus nephritis
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SLE flares linked to air temperature, pollution
AMSTERDAM – Rises in temperature and air pollution upped the chances of disease activity flares in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
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CRISS hailed as transforming systemic sclerosis drug development
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ACR and EULAR to review new criteria for classifying vasculitis
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EULAR nears first recommendations for managing Sjögren’s syndrome
AMSTERDAM – A key feature of the pending recommendations divides management targets into sicca syndrome and systemic disease.