Incidence and prevalence of lupus in Buenos Aires, Argentina: a 11-year health management organisation-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Studies regarding the epidemiology of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are lacking in Argentina. Our purpose was to estimate the incidence and prevalence of SLE in a university hospital-based health management organisation in Buenos Aires (HIMCP).

Methods

For incidence calculation, the population at risk included all adult members of the HIMCP, with continuous affiliation for at least 1 year from January 1998 to January 2009. Each person was followed until he/she voluntarily left the HIMCP, death or finalisation of the study. Multiple methods for case finding were used to ensure complete ascertainment: (a) patients with problem SLE, undifferentiated autoimmune disease or mixed connective tissue disease in the Computer-based Patient Record System, (b) patients wi

SUBMITTER: Scolnik M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4213830 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature