América G. Uribe

TL;DR: Smoking emerged as a predictor of vascular events and should be strongly discouraged, and antiphospholipid antibodies and CRP support the role of inflammation and autoimmunity in the development of accelerated atherosclerosis in SLE.

TL;DR: Global disease activity, maximum SLEDAI score, incidence of flares, time to first flare, and incidence of adverse events were similar among women with systemic lupus erythematosus, irrespective of the type of contraceptive they were using.

TL;DR: In patients with SLE, poor baseline HRQOL was highly predictive of subsequent poorHRQOL and other predictive variables of poor functioning were primarily psychological/behavioral and socioeconomic-demographic.

TL;DR: The SLAM-R, the Mexican version of the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index, the MEX-SLEDAI, and the Modified SLEDAI-2K are adequate options for assessment of SLE disease activity; they are also less costly than the SLED Artificial Intelligence 2K.

TL;DR: Socioeconomic-demographic, ethnicity, health insurance, behavioural and psychological variables are important mediators of high levels of disease activity in SLE during its course and interventions aimed at modifiable factors may improve the outcomes of SLE.