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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 31.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Rheum Dis. 2007 Aug 24;67(4):500–504. doi: 10.1136/ard.2007.076059

Table 2.

Selected clinical features of LUMINA patients according to type of disease onset

Acute onset lupus
Variable Yes, n = 94 No, n = 537 p Value
Total disease duration (TD–TL), mean (SD) 5.7 (4.0) 5.4 (3.6) 0.521
ACR criteria number at diagnosis, mean (SD) 6.0 (1.3) 5.4 (1.3) <0.001
SLAM-R at T0, mean (SD) 11.5 (6.5) 9.1 (5.6) 0.001
SLAM-R, weighted average (SD) 9.8 (5.9) 7.6 (4.4) 0.001
SDI at T0, mean (SD) 0.9 (1.3) 0.7 (1.6) 0.252
SDI at TL, mean (SD) 2.2 (2.2) 1.7 (2.2) 0.039
Clinical manifestations:
  Skin involvement, % 90.4 95.1 0.067
  Musculoskeletal, % 94.7 98.1 0.044
  Cardiopulmonary involvement, % 76.6 56.1 <0.001
  Neurological involvement, % 81.9 80.5 0.747
  Renal involvement, % 71.3 48.8 <0.001
  Haematological involvement, % 91.5 78.6 0.004
Deceased, % 17.0 11.1 0.101

ACR, American College of Rheumatology; LUMINA, lupus in minorities, nature vs nurture; SLAM-R, Systemic Lupus Activity Measure – Revised; SLI, Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics/American College of Rheumatology Damage Index; Tn, timepoint n (D, time of diagnosis; L, last follow-up).