The global burden of SLE: prevalence, health disparities and socioeconomic impact

EE Carter, SG Barr, AE Clarke - Nature reviews rheumatology, 2016 - nature.com
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem autoimmune disease that can
potentially lead to serious organ complications and even death. Its global burden—in terms …

Fatigue, health-related quality of life and other patient-reported outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus

A Schmeding, M Schneider - Best practice & research Clinical …, 2013 - Elsevier
Objective This chapter aims to evaluate current knowledge of the burden of systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE) on individual patients, with a particular focus on health-related quality …

[HTML][HTML] Central pain mechanisms in rheumatic diseases: future directions

K Phillips, DJ Clauw - Arthritis and rheumatism, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pain is a prominent component of many rheumatologic conditions, and is the result of a
complex physiologic interaction of central and peripheral nervous system signaling that …

The number of flares patients experience impacts on damage accrual in systemic lupus erythematosus: data from a multiethnic Latin American cohort

MF Ugarte-Gil, E Acevedo-Vásquez… - Annals of the …, 2015 - ard.bmj.com
Purpose To determine the association between the number of flares systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE) patients experience and damage accrual, independently of other …

[HTML][HTML] Systemic lupus erythematosus in primary care: an update and practical messages for the general practitioner

I Gergianaki, G Bertsias - Frontiers in medicine, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a complex chronic autoimmune disease that
manifests a wide range of organ involvement. Traditionally, the diagnosis and management …

What do we know about self-reported fatigue in systemic lupus erythematosus?

S Cleanthous, M Tyagi, DA Isenberg, SP Newman - Lupus, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Fatigue is one of the most complex and ill understood symptoms of chronic illness often
reported as the number one complaint by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) …

[HTML][HTML] High comorbidity burden in patients with SLE: data from the community-based lupus registry of crete

I Gergianaki, P Garantziotis, C Adamichou… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Comorbidities and multimorbidity, often complicating the disease course of patients with
chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases, may be influenced by disease-intrinsic and …

Burden of systemic lupus erythematosus on employment and work productivity: data from a large cohort in the southeastern United States

C Drenkard, G Bao, G Dennis, HJ Kan… - Arthritis care & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To examine the burden of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) on work loss,
unemployment, and work productivity impairment in an SLE cohort from the southeastern …

Factors affecting quality of life in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: important considerations and potential interventions

C Elera-Fitzcarrald, A Fuentes… - Expert Review of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have a better survival than
decades ago; nevertheless, they still experience a low health-related (HR) quality of life …

Lupus community panel proposals for optimising clinical trials: 2018

JT Merrill, S Manzi, C Aranow, A Askenase… - Lupus Science & …, 2018 - lupus.bmj.com
Formidable impediments stand in the way of treatment development for lupus. These include
the unwieldy size of current trials, international competition for scarce patients, complex …