Table 1.
Demographics of the patients recruited at the University of Pennsylvania
| Type of LE skin manifestations | Number of cases | Age at onset (mean+/- SEM; range) | F/M ratio | Race distribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African-American | Caucasian | Hispanic | Asian | |||||
| ACLE | 7 | 33.1+/-5.0; 17-56) | 7/0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| SCLE | 21 | 48.2+/-4.1; 15-82 | 16/5 (3.2) | 20 | 1 | |||
| CCLE | 77 | 36.1+/-1.5; 12-65 | 62/15 (4.1) | 37 | 36 | 1 | 3 | |
| CCLE Subclassifications | DLE generalized | 26 | 32.6+/-1.9 ;19-57 | 21/5 (4.2) | 17 | 8 | 1 | |
| DLE localized | 32 | 39.1+/-2.8; 12-65) | 26/6 (4.3) | 17 | 14 | 1 | ||
| DLE hypertrophic | 2 | 24.5+/-5.0; 21-28) | 2/0 | 2 | ||||
| Tumid LE | 13 | 37.4+/-3.4; 19-60) | 9/4 (2.2) | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | |
| Chilblains | 1 | 46 | 1/0 | 1 | ||||
| LE panniculitis | 3 | 36.3+/-14.3; 20-59) | 3/0 | 1 | 2 | |||
| SLE | 7 | 34.5+/-4.1; 24-45) | 7/0 | 1 | 6 | |||
| Only LE non-specific disease | 1 | 23 | 1/0 | 1 | ||||