Lupus

A lack of EULAR/European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association response at 1 year among patients with lupus nephritis predicted chronic kidney disease, researchers reported.

Atrophic scarring and location in the conchal bowl are two of six clinical classification criteria that may be applied to discoid lupus erythematosus, according to results of an effort to create standardized criteria for this disease.

Among Medicaid-insured women with systemic lupus erythematosus, Black and Asian patients are less likely than white patients to receive contraceptives from a health provider, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

An estimated 2.95 million children and young people worldwide live with clubfoot, juvenile idiopathic arthritis or juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus, with the greatest prevalence in South Asia, researchers reported.

Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus demonstrated a 27% higher risk for nonfatal cardiovascular events compared with patients with diabetes, and twice the risk of the general population, according data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

The EULAR/American College of Rheumatology 2019 classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus did not perform significantly better than the ACR 1997 and SLICC 2012 criteria, according to findings published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Patients with psoriatic arthritis demonstrate a 2.3-fold increased prevalence for systemic lupus erythematosus, compared with the general population, according to data published in The Journal of Rheumatology.

Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus who received hydroxychloroquine were just as likely to develop severe COVID-19 as those who were not treated with antimalarials, according to data from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance registry.

Thrombosis rates among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus decrease 13% for every increase of 200 ng/mL in mean hydroxychloroquine in the blood, according to data presented at the EULAR 2020 virtual congress.

Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus had a significantly increased risk for antimalarial-induced retinopathy, possibly due to prolonged exposure to those drugs, according to a data presented at the EULAR 2020 E-Congress.