Table 5.

Summary of risk factors for atherosclerotic vascular events in five cohorts.

Risk factors	Baltimore2 229	Pittsburgh3 498	LUMINA16 546	Toronto inception15 561	SLICC 637*
Type of cohort	Prevalent	Prevalent	Inception 5 yr	Inception 1 yr	Inception 1 yr
Older age at Diagnosis	√	√	√		√
Longer duration SLE	√	√	√
Male gender					√
Longer duration prednisone use	√	√
Hypercholesterolemia	√	√
Hypertension	√
Postmenopausal status		√
Smoking			√	√
Neuropsychiatric lupus				√
C-reactive protein			√
Antiphospholipid antibody			√

^*includes only patients followed for at least 2 years

37 patients in SLICC has also been used in the Toronto inception study but had 3 more year of follow up in the SLICC registry