PReS-FINAL-2351: Children with probable SLE by ACR criteria may need more aggressive lupus treatment early in the disease course
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Method Institutional Review Board approval was obtained to retrospectively review the charts of 98 SLE patients seen in the pediatric rheumatology clinic at Nationwide Children’s Hospital over the past 24 years. All the patients were divided in to two groups, ‘definitive pSLE’ who met the minimum 4/11, or more ACR criteria and the ‘probable pSLE’ who did not meet the minimum criteria at presentation in rheumatology clinic. Both the groups were assessed for disease severity, damage and gradient of damage. Appropriate statistical tests were used i.e. Chi-Square test, Fisher’s Exact test, Univariate logistic regression and Wilcoxon two-sample test were used for statistics for various data set. All tests were conducted in SAS 9.2
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