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National registry of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology: objectives and methodology

Abstract:

Objective To describe the objectives, design and methods of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) registry (RELESSER). Methods Multicenter, hospital-based registry, with retrospective collection of data from a large representative sample of adult patients with SLE (1997 ACR criteria) attending Spanish rheumatology services. The registry includes demographic data, frequent and infrequent (<1%) clinical manifestations, information about activity, damage, severity, comorbidity, treatments and mortality, collecting 359 variables per patient, with highly standardized definitions. We performed a preliminary descriptive analysis of the data. Results Forty-five centers were involved and 4024 SLE patients (91% with ≥4 ACR criteria) have been included; 90% are women and 93% Caucasians, with a median age at diagnosis of 33 years, median disease duration: 120 months, median follow …