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Classification of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics Versus American College of Rheumatology Criteria. A Comparative Study of 2,055 Patients From a Real‐Life, International Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Cohort

2015; Wiley; Volume: 67; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/acr.22539

2151-4658

Luís Inês, José António Pereira da Silva, María Galindo, Francisco Javier López-Longo, G. Terroso, Vasco C. Romão, Íñigo Rúa‐Figueroa, María José Santos, José María Pego‐Reigosa, Patrícia Nero, Marcos Cerqueira, Cátia Duarte, L. Cunha-Miranda, Miguel Bernardes, Anabela Susana de Sousa Gonçalves, C. Mouriño, Filipe Araújo, Ana Raposo, Anabela Barcelos, Maura Couto, Pedro Vinícius Araújo de Abreu, Teresa Otón, Carla Macieira, Filipa Oliveira‐Ramos, Jaime Branco, José António Pereira da Silva, Helena Canhão, Jaime Calvo‐Alén,

Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases

The new Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) 2012 classification criteria aimed to improve the performance of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) classification over the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1997 criteria. However, the SLICC 2012 criteria need further external validation. Our objective was to compare the sensitivity for SLE classification between the ACR 1997 and the SLICC 2012 criteria sets in a real-life, multicenter, international SLE population.We conducted a cross-sectional observational study of patients with a clinical diagnosis of SLE followed at the participating rheumatology centers and registered in the Portuguese and Spanish national registries. The sensitivity of the 2 classification sets was compared using McNemar's test. The sensitivity of ACR 1997 and SLICC 2012 was further examined in 5 subgroups, defined according to disease duration.We included 2,055 SLE patients (female 91.4%, white 93.5%, mean ± SD age at disease onset 33.1 ± 14.4 years, mean ± SD age at SLE diagnosis 35.3 ± 14.7 years, and mean ± SD age at the time of the study 47.4 ± 14.6 years) from 17 centers. The sensitivity for SLE classification was higher with the SLICC 2012 than with the ACR 1997 (93.2% versus 85.6%; P < 0.0001). Of 296 patients not fulfilling the ACR 1997, 62.8% could be classified with the SLICC 2012. The subgroup of patients with ≤5 years since disease onset presented the largest difference in sensitivity between the SLICC 2012 and the ACR 1997 (89.3% versus 76.0%; P < 0.0001); this difference diminished with longer disease duration, and it was no longer significant for patients with >20 years of disease duration.The SLICC 2012 criteria were more sensitive than the ACR 1997 criteria in real-life clinical practice in SLE. The SLICC 2012 criteria may allow patients to be classified as having SLE earlier in the disease course.