Response to: Correspondence on "New EULAR/ACR 2019 SLE classification criteria: defining ominosity in SLE" by Pons-Estel et al

We thank Dr Pons-Estel and colleagues1 for their interest in our2 paper proposing that a score of 20 or more in the 2019 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology (EULAR/ACR) classification criteria3 4 predicts more severe disease activity in the following 5 years after the systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) classification.2 Pons-Estel et al1 demonstrated that 98 (15.31%) patients who were classified by 1982/1997 ACR criteria, but not classified as SLE with the 2019 EULAR/ACR classification criteria, having a score of less than 10 points, accrued less damage compared with those who had a score of ≥10.5 In our cohort of patients with SLE, only 16 (1.8%) had a EULAR/ACR score of less than 10. The 1997 ACR domain involvement of this subgroup of patients was predominated by skin, musculoskeletal and haematological involvement, and only...

Source: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases - July 13, 2023 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Whittall-Garcia, L., Gladman, D. D., Urowitz, M., Su, J., Touma, Z., Johnson, S. R. Tags: ARD Correspondence response Source Type: research