Systemic lupus erythematosus in Europe at the change of the millennium:Lessons from the "Euro-Lupus Cohort"

• Main Author: Cervera, R.
• Publication Date: 2006
• Other Authors: Abarca-Costalago, M., Abramovicz, D., Allegri, F., Annunziata, P., Ayditung, A., Bacarelli, M., Bellisai, F., Bernardino, I., BIERNAT‐KALUZA, M., BLOCKMANS, D., BOKI, K., BRACCI, L., Campanella, V., Camps, M., Carcassi, C., Cattaneo, R., Cauli, A., Chwalinska‐Sadowska, H., Contu, I., Cosyns, J., Danieli, M., D'cruz, D., Depresseux, G., Direskeneli, H., Domènech, I., Fernández‐Nebro, A., Ferrara, G., Font, J., Frutos, M., Galeazzi, M., García‐Carrasco, M., García-Iglesias, M., García‐Tobaruela, A., George, J., Gil, A., González‐Santos, P., Grana, M., Gül, A., Haga, H., De Haro‐Liger, M., Houssiau, F., Hughes, G., Ingelmo, M., Jedryka‐Góral, A., khamashta, M., Lavilla, P., Levi, Y., López‐Dupla, M., López‐Soto, A., Maldykowa, H., Marcolongo, R., Mathieu, A., Morozzi, G., Nicolopoulou, N., Papasteriades, C., Passiu, G., Perelló, I., Petera, P., Petrovic, R., Piette, J., Pintado, V., De Pita, O., Popovic, R., Pucci, G., Puddu, P., De Ramón, E., Ramos‐Casals, M., Rodríguez‐Andreu, J., Ruiz‐Irastroza, G., Sánchez‐Lora, J., Sanna, G., Scorza, R., Sebastini, G., Sherer, Y., Shoenfeld, Y., Simpatico, A., Sinico, R., Smolen, J., Tincani, A., Tokgöz, G., Urbanomárquez, A., Vasconcelos, C., Vázquez, J., Veronesi, M., Vianni, J., Vivancos, J.
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.16/524
• topic: Epidemiology; Morbidity; Mortality; Prognostic factors; Systemic lupus erythematosus

The bEuro-Lupus CohortQ is composed by 1000 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) that have been followed prospectively since 1991. These patients have been gathered by a European consortium—the bEuro-Lupus Project GroupQ. This consortium was originated as part of the network promoted by the bEuropean Working Party on SLEQ, a working group created in 1990 in order to promote research in Europe on the different problems related to this disease. The bEuro-Lupus CohortQ provides an updated information on the SLE morbidity and mortality characteristics in the present decade as well as defines several clinical and immunological prognostic factors