Abstracts tagged "outcome measures and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)"

Abstract Number: 264 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Relationships between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Health Status in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Kimberly DeQuattro¹, Laura Trupin¹, Jing Li¹, Patricia Katz², Cristina Lanata¹, Edward H. Yelin³, Stephanie Rush³, Lindsey A. Criswell², Louise Murphy⁴, Maria Dall'Era⁵ and Jinoos Yazdany¹, ¹Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Arthritis Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, ⁵University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as abuse, neglect and domestic violence are associated with poor adult health status and immune dysregulation. The extent and…
Abstract Number: 1668 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Construction and Validation of a Frailty Index As a Novel Health Measure in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Alexandra Legge¹, Susan Kirkland², Kenneth Rockwood³, Pantelis Andreou², Sang-Cheol Bae⁴, Caroline Gordon⁵, Juanita Romero-Díaz⁶, Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero⁷, Daniel J. Wallace⁸, Sasha Bernatsky⁹, Ann E. Clarke¹⁰, Joan T. Merrill¹¹, Ellen M. Ginzler¹², Paul R. Fortin¹³, Dafna D Gladman¹⁴, Murray Urowitz⁷, Ian N. Bruce¹⁵, David A. Isenberg¹⁶, Anisur Rahman¹⁷, Graciela S. Alarcón¹⁸, Michelle Petri¹⁹, Munther A Khamashta²⁰, Mary Dooley²¹, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman²², Susan Manzi²³, Kristján Steinsson²⁴, Asad A Zoma²⁵, Cynthia Aranow²⁶, Meggan Mackay²⁶, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza²⁷, S. Sam Lim²⁸, Murat Inanc²⁹, Ronald F van Vollenhoven³⁰, Andreas Jönsen³¹, Ola Nived³¹, Manuel Ramos-Casals³², Diane L. Kamen³³, Kenneth C. Kalunian³⁴, Søren Jacobsen³⁵, Christine A. Peschken³⁶, Anca Askanase³⁷ and John G. Hanly³⁸, ¹Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre and Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ²Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ³Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ⁴Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ⁵Rheumatology Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁶Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁷University of Toronto Lupus Research Program, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Cedars-Sinai/David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁹Divisions of Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹⁰Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ¹¹University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹²Rheumatology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, ¹³Medicine, CHU de Québec - University of Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada, ¹⁴Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁵Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ¹⁶University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁷Rayne Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁸University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ¹⁹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²⁰Graham Hughes Lupus Research Laboratory, The Rayne Institute, London, United Kingdom, ²¹Dooley Rheumatology, Chapel Hill Doctors, Chapel Hill, NC, ²²FSM, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²³Autoimmunity Institute and Medicine Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ²⁴Rheumatology, Univ. Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland, ²⁵Lanarkshire Center for Rheumatology, Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride, East Kilbride, Scotland, United Kingdom, ²⁶The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ²⁷Autoimmune Diseases Research Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, BioCruces Health Research Institute, Hospital Universitario Cruces, University of the Basque Country, Barakaldo, Spain, ²⁸Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ²⁹Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ³⁰Unit for clinical therapy research (ClinTRID), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, ³¹Rheumatology, Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Sweden, ³²Laboratory of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases “Josep Font”, CELLEX, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Department of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, ICMID, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, ³³Medicine/Rheumatology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ³⁴Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, ³⁵Rheumatology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³⁶RR 149G, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ³⁷Rheumatology, Columbia University, College of Physician and Surgeons, New York, NY, ³⁸Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine and Department of Pathology, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre and Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Background/Purpose: Clinical outcomes in SLE are challenging to predict. In non-SLE populations, susceptibility to adverse outcomes has been measured using a frailty index (FI), which…
Abstract Number: 1711 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Utility of the Lupus Low Disease Activity State (LLDAS) in Discriminating Responders in the BLISS-52 and BLISS-76 Phase 3 Trials of Intravenous Belimumab in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Shereen Oon¹, Molla Huq², Vera Golder³, Emily Ong⁴, Eric Morand⁵ and Mandana Nikpour⁶, ¹The University of Melbourne at St Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, Australia, ²The University of Melbourne at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, ³School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁴School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁵Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁶The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne, Australia
Background/Purpose: Measurement of treatment response in SLE clinical trials has been based on measurement of change from baseline; however a treat-to-target analysis has seldom been…
Abstract Number: 2786 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prospective Multicenter Validation Study of the Lupus Low Disease Activity State – a Treatment Target for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Vera Golder¹, Rangi Kandane-Rathnayake², Molla Huq³, Worawit Louthrenoo⁴, Shue-Fen Luo⁵, Yeong-Jian Wu⁶, Aisha Lateef⁷, Sargunan Sockalingam⁸, Susan Morton⁹, Sandra V. Navarra¹⁰, Leonid Zamora¹¹, Laniyati Hamijoyo¹², Yasuhiro Katsumata¹³, Masayoshi Harigai¹⁴, Madelynn Chan¹⁵, Sean O'Neill¹⁶, Fiona Goldblatt¹⁷, Chak Sing Lau¹⁸, Zhan-Guo Li¹⁹, Alberta Y. Hoi², Mandana Nikpour²⁰ and Eric Morand²¹, ¹School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ²School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ³The University of Melbourne at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ⁶Chang Gung University, Taoyuan County, Taiwan, ⁷Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, National University Hospital of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, ⁸University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ⁹Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia, ¹⁰University of Santo Tomas Hospital, Manila, Philippines, ¹¹Rheumatology, University of Santo Tomas Hospital, Manila, Philippines, ¹²University of Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia, ¹³Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, ¹⁴Tokyo Women's Medical University, Division of Epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology of Rheumatic Diseases, Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo, Japan, ¹⁵Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, ¹⁶University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, ¹⁷Rheumatology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, ¹⁸Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ¹⁹Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, People’s Hospital, Peking University Health Science Center,, Beijing, China, ²⁰The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne, Australia, ²¹Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Background/Purpose: The adoption of treat to target approaches for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) requires the definition of a target state validated for improved patient outcomes.…
Abstract Number: 2930 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prospective Comparison of Remission and Lupus Low Disease Activity State – Effect on Disease Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Vera Golder¹, Rangi Kandane-Rathnayake², Molla Huq³, Worawit Louthrenoo⁴, Shue-Fen Luo⁵, Yeong-Jian Wu⁶, Aisha Lateef⁷, Sargunan Sockalingam⁸, Susan Morton⁹, Sandra V. Navarra¹⁰, Leonid Zamora¹¹, Laniyati Hamijoyo¹², Yasuhiro Katsumata¹³, Masayoshi Harigai¹⁴, Madelynn Chan¹⁵, Sean O'Neill¹⁶, Fiona Goldblatt¹⁷, Chak Sing Lau¹⁸, Zhan-Guo Li¹⁹, Alberta Y. Hoi², Mandana Nikpour²⁰ and Eric Morand²¹, ¹School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ²School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ³The University of Melbourne at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ⁶Chang Gung University, Taoyuan County, Taiwan, ⁷Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, National University Hospital of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, ⁸University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ⁹Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia, ¹⁰University of Santo Tomas Hospital, Manila, Philippines, ¹¹Rheumatology, University of Santo Tomas Hospital, Manila, Philippines, ¹²University of Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia, ¹³Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, ¹⁴Tokyo Women's Medical University, Division of Epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology of Rheumatic Diseases, Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo, Japan, ¹⁵Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, ¹⁶University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, ¹⁷Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, ¹⁸Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ¹⁹Rheum/Immunology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China, ²⁰The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne, Australia, ²¹Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Background/Purpose: The Definitions of Remission in SLE (DORIS) group has proposed multiple definitions of remission, but these are infrequently attained and have not previously been…
Abstract Number: 1624 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
SLE Disease Activity Index Glucocorticosteroid Index (SLEDAI-2KG) Identifies More Responders Than Sledai-2K
Zahi Touma¹, Dafna D Gladman², Jiandong Su³, Nicole Anderson⁴ and Murray Urowitz⁴, ¹Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Division of Rheumatology, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Rheumatology, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index-2000 (SLEDAI-2K) is one of the most commonly used disease activity indices in clinical practice and research but this…
Abstract Number: 1657 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Does Advanced Age Influence the Type of Renal Injury and the Prognosis of Lupus Nephritis?
Eulalia Armengol¹, Javier Narváez², Helena Borrell¹, Sergi Heredia¹, Milagros Ricse¹, Eva Benavent³, Alex Roset³, Carmen Gomez Vaquero¹, Joan Torras⁴, Francesca Mitjavila³ and Joan Miquel Nolla¹, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ²Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge. Barcelona. Spain, Barcelona, Spain, ³Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Nephrology, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that usually affects young people. Several reviews have shown that age may have an effect on…
Abstract Number: 713 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Lupuspro Is Responsive to Changes in Disease Activity over Time
David Giangreco¹, Hervé Devilliers², Narender Annapureddy¹, Joel A. Block³ and Meenakshi Jolly¹, ¹Rheumatology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ²Dijon University Hospital, Department of internal medicine and systemic diseases, Dijon, France, ³Section of Rheumatology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Patient reported outcome (PRO) tools are important to understand, educate, manage, and follow patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Disease targeted PRO for SLE…
Abstract Number: 2989 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Lupus Impact Tracker Is Responsive to Changes in Disease Activity in Lupus
David Giangreco¹, Hervé Devilliers², Narender Annapureddy¹, Joel A. Block³ and Meenakshi Jolly¹, ¹Rheumatology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ²Dijon University Hospital, Department of internal medicine and systemic diseases, Dijon, France, ³Section of Rheumatology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Patient reported outcomes (PRO) are important to understand, educate, manage and follow patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Lupus Impact Tracker (LIT) is a…
Abstract Number: 2634 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Signal of Improvement in Lupus Disease Activity at 3 Months Predicts Further Valid Improvement at 6 Months
Zahi Touma¹, Dafna D. Gladman², Dominique Ibanez¹ and Murray B. Urowitz², ¹Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: In patients with active disease, physicians look for an early signal in response to treatment to guide their therapeutic decisions. Systemic Lupus…
Abstract Number: 2508 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical and Serological Discordance In The Systemic Lupus Erythematosus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) Cohort
Murray B. Urowitz¹, Dafna D. Gladman¹, Nicole Anderson¹ and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus International Collaborating Clinics SLICC², ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Anti-DNA antibodies and serum complement levels are considered important biomarkers for disease activity in SLE. Despite this many SLE patients present serologically active (positive…
Abstract Number: 2617 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Outcomes Associated with Belimumab in Black/African American Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematous in Clinical Practice Settings in the United States
Christopher E. Collins¹, Siva Narayanan², Maria Dall'era³, Greg Dennis⁴, Alan Oglesby⁵, Mark B. McGuire⁶, Ramesh Pappu⁷, Charles T. Molta⁸ and Greg Keenan⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Washington Hospital Ctr, Washington, DC, ²Global Health Economics and Outcomes Research and Epidemiology, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, MD, ³Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, MD, ⁵GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC, ⁶Medical Data Analytics, Parsippany, NJ, ⁷GlaxoSmithKline, USA, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Effectiveness of belimumab in black/African American (AA) patients (pts) with Systemic Lupus Erythematous (SLE) is yet to be adequately demonstrated. The objective of this…
Abstract Number: 1417 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Favorable Response to Belimumab At Three Months
Katrina M. Shum¹, Jill P. Buyon², H. Michael Belmont¹, Andrew G. Franks Jr.³, Richard Furie⁴, Diane L. Kamen⁵, Susan Manzi⁶, Michelle Petri⁷, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman⁸, Chung-E Tseng¹, Ronald F. van Vollenhoven⁹, Daniel Wallace¹⁰ and Anca Askanase¹, ¹NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ²Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ³Dermatology & Medicine (Rheumatology), New York University, New York, NY, ⁴North Shore-LIJ Health System, Lake Success, NY, ⁵Department of Medicine, Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Charleston, SC, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁷Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁸Medicine/Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁹The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, ¹⁰Cedars-Sinai/UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Belimumab (Benlysta) is a monoclonal antibody that inhibits soluble B-Lymphocyte Stimulator and improves SLE disease activity. This study was initiated to evaluate the use…
Abstract Number: 1418 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Directed Intuitive Assessment of Lupus (the DIAL system for real world clinics) Correlates Well with BILAG and SLEDAI
Anca D. Askanase¹, Katrina M. Shum¹, Stan Kamp², Fredonna C. Carthen², Teresa J. Aberle³ and J.T. Merrill², ¹NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ²Clinical Pharmacology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Arthritis & Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Disease activity measures used in SLE clinical studies, including the SLEDAI (SLE Disease Activity Index) and BILAG (British Isles Lupus Assessment Group) index are…
Abstract Number: 1411 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Equivalence of Various Language Versions of Lupus Specific Patient Reported Outcomes Measure (LupusPRO)
Meenakshi Jolly¹, Mark Kosinski², Sergio M.A. Toloza³, Joel A. Block⁴, Rachel A. Mikolaitis⁴, Sergio Durán-Barragan⁵, Ana M. Bertoli⁶, Ivana Blazevic⁷, Luis M. Vila⁸, Dilrukshie Cooray⁹, Emmanuel P. Katsaros¹⁰, Karina Marianne D. Torralba¹¹, Ioana Moldovan¹², Arif Kaya¹³, Berna Goker¹³, Seminur Haznedaroglu¹⁴, Mehmet E. Tezcan¹³, Josiane Bourré-Tessier¹⁵, Sasha Bernatsky¹⁶, Ann E. Clarke¹⁷, Michael H. Weisman¹⁸, Sandra V. Navarra¹⁹, Daniel J. Wallace²⁰ and Graciela S. Alarcon²¹, ¹Rheumatology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ²QualityMetric Inc, Lincoln, RI, ³Medicine, Hospital San Juan Bautista, Catamarca, Argentina, ⁴Section of Rheumatology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ⁵Unidad de Investigacion en Enfermedades Cronico-Degenerativas, Guadalajara, Mexico, ⁶Instituto Reumatológico Strusberg, Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina, ⁷University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aries, Argentina, ⁸Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR, ⁹Rheumatology, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ¹⁰Int Medicine, Loma Linda Univ, Loma Linda, CA, ¹¹Rheumatology/Int Med, USC Keck Schl of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ¹²Loma Linda Univ Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA, ¹³Internal Medicine-Rheumatology, Gazi University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey, ¹⁴Internal Medicine-Rheumatology, Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, ¹⁵Rheumatology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ¹⁶Clinical Epidemiology, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Ctre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹⁷Division of Rheumatology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, AB, Canada, ¹⁸Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁹University of Santo Tomas Hospital, Manila, Philippines, ²⁰Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²¹Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Due to observed disparities in health outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) across racial/ethnic groups, socioeconomic status, or health care systems, studies on group…

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