Samuel K Shinjo, Eloísa Bonfá, Daniel Wojdyla, Eduardo F Borba, Luis A Ramirez, Hugo R Scherbarth, João C Tavares Brenol, Rosa Chacón-Diaz, Oscar J Neira, Guillermo A Berbotto, Ignacio Garcia De La Torre, Eduardo M Acevedo-Vázquez, Loreto Massardo, Leonor A Barile-Fabris, Francisco Caeiro, Luis H Silveira, Emilia I Sato, Sandra Buliubasich, Graciela S Alarcón, Bernardo A Pons-Estel
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the beneficial effect of antimalarial treatment on lupus survival in a large, multiethnic, international longitudinal inception cohort. METHODS: Socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, clinical manifestations, classification criteria, laboratory findings, and treatment variables were examined in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) from the Grupo Latino Americano de Estudio del Lupus Eritematoso (GLADEL) cohort. The diagnosis of SLE, according to the American College of Rheumatology criteria, was assessed within 2 years of cohort entry...
March 2010: Arthritis and Rheumatism