A new study finds that the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) frailty index (FI) not only serves as a measure to predict mortality, it can also predict the degree of damage ...

Assessing chronic organ damage in people with lupus is one of the key ways both clinicians and researchers evaluate individuals’ health and the severity of the disease. While the current tool used to ...

At the time we did this, which was before 2012 when the Systemic Lupus Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) classification criteria came around, we used the 1997 revised [American College of Rheumatology ...

(5) Patients are diagnosed with lupus when they have 4 of the 11 total signs or symptoms, says Dr. Luk. The newer system, SLICC, published in Arthritis and Rheumatology, may also be a valuable ...

The SLICC criteria have 17 categories (11 clinical ... or must have biopsy-proven lupus nephritis (LN) and be seropositive for ANAs or anti-dsDNA antibodies (see Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology ...

Lupus raises your chances of heart disease and stroke. This is probably due to the long-term inflammation that comes with lupus. Some lupus medicines, such as steroids, may also increase the risk ...

Lupus is an autoimmune disease; the body’s immune system attacks healthy cells leading to pain, fever, rashes, organ damage and other symptoms. The Lupus Foundation of America estimates more ...

The cause of lupus has long escaped doctors trying to treat the autoimmune disease. However, a study published this week identified a cause of lupus based on molecular defects in patients' blood.