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The concept of disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is fairly intuitive and most clinicians are used to thinking of their patient’s condition as representing, at any given point in time, a high, moderate, or low disease activity, or even a remission: the complete absence of disease activity. However, behind these deceptively simple statements hides a complex multi-dimensional reality, where the specific clinical manifestations attributed to SLE, the subjective experiences of the patient, and treatments all interact (Figure 8.1). Considerable efforts have been made over the past several decades to arrive at standardized and quantitative measures of disease activity both for some of the individual SLE manifestations and for the overall disease.
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Arnaud, L., van Vollenhoven, R. (2018). Disease activity, outcomes, prognosis, and perspectives. In: Advanced Handbook of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Adis, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43035-5_8
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