Evaluation of a Patient-Reported Frailty Tool in Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

CONCLUSION: Frailty prevalence was high in this cohort of women with SLE using both frailty definitions, suggesting that frailty may be accelerated in women with SLE, particularly when based exclusively on self-report. Frailty remained associated with self-reported disability in adjusted analyses. The FS may be an informative point-of-care tool to identify frail women with SLE.PMID:34470795 | DOI:10.3899/jrheum.201466

Source: Journal of Rheumatology - September 2, 2021 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Sarah B Lieber Musarrat Nahid Stephen Paget Jessica R Berman Medha Barbhaiya Lisa R Sammaritano Kyriakos Kirou John A Carrino Mangala Rajan Dina Sheira Lisa A Mandl Source Type: research