Table 2.
Symptoms most frequently reported by patients with SLEa (n=2029b patient mentions from 5636 posts) and CLEc (n=118b patient mentions from 244 posts).
| Symptoms or signs | Proportion of patients, n (%) | |
|
|
SLE | CLE |
| Pain | 610 (30.1) | 25 (21.2) |
| Fatigue | 386 (19.2) | 19 (16.1) |
| Rash | 239 (11.8) | 27 (22.9) |
| Arthralgia | 184 (9.1) | 10 (8.5) |
| Anxiety | 150 (7.4) | 7 (5.9) |
| Cephalgia | 143 (7.1) | 4 (3.4) |
| Clinical depression | 98 (4.8) | —d |
| Arthritis | 78 (3.8) | — |
| Alopecia | 71 (3.5) | 11 (9.3) |
| Pyrexia | 70 (3.4) | — |
| Scar | — | 7 (5.9) |
| Photosensitivity | — | 4 (3.4) |
| Hypothyroidism | — | 4 (3.4) |
aSLE: systemic lupus erythematosus.
bIndicates that patients were counted more than once if they discussed more than one symptom in a post.
cCLE: cutaneous lupus erythematosus.
dNot available.