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See Latest ArticlesStudy on clinical features and complications with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) activity in Chinese Han population
Clinical Rheumatology, 08/12/09
Li LH et al. – Study evaluated the relationship of clinical characteristics and organs/systems involvement of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with SLE disease activity index (SLEDAI) in Chinese Han population and presented a compendium of factors affecting SLE, which should be useful for better evaluating disease activity and predicting organs/systems damage in SLE for clinical assessments and managements.
Methods- An investigation of the relationship of clinical characteristics and complications with SLE activity in Chinese Han population
- 1,490 SLE inpatients evaluated for disease activity using SLEDAI
- Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test to compare differences of clinical and laboratory features between active and inactive SLE pts
- Logistic regression to explore the pattern of risk factors for disease activity
- Major factors associated with disease activity:
- Neuropsychiatric involvement, nephritis, arthralgia,
- anti-dsDNA, serositis, hypocomplementemia, oral ulcerations,
- erythrocyte sedimentation rate, low C3, hematological abnormalities, and systolic pressure
- Factors not associated with disease activity:
- Headaches, anti-ribonucleoprotein or anti-Sm,
- C-reactive protein, and anemia
- The involvements of urinary system, respiratory system, and central nervous system were more frequent in active SLE than inactive SLE, except for alimentary system
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