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Response to: ‘Correspondence on ‘Risk of systemic lupus erythematosus after immune thrombocytopenia and autoimmune haemolytic anaemia: a nationwide French study’’ by Maquet et al
  1. Xiao-Huan Chen1,
  2. Fang-Xiao Zhu2,
  3. Hsin-Hua Chen3,4,5,6,7,
  4. James Cheng-Chung Wei8,9,10
  1. 1 Department of Rheumatology, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
  2. 2 Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
  3. 3 Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
  4. 4 Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Tawian
  5. 5 Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
  6. 6 School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
  7. 7 Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Centre for Translational Medicine, Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
  8. 8 Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
  9. 9 Department of Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
  10. 10 Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
  1. Correspondence to Dr James Cheng-Chung Wei, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung 40201, Taiwan; jccwei{at}gmail.com

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-219582

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    We thank Maquet et al 1 for their interest in our articles entitled ‘Increased risk of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in patients with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA): a nationwide population-based cohort study’2 and ‘Risk of systemic lupus erythematosus in patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP): a population-based cohort study’.3

    Maquet et al 1 estimated the cumulative incidence of SLE after incident primary ITP and AIHA in France. But they found that the cumulative incidence of SLE in France was significantly lower than our previous study results.2 3 Therefore, we reassessed cumulative incidences stratified by age and sex to compare the data between Taiwan and France. Finally, our study4 showed the 1-year/5-year cumulative incidences of SLE in adult patients with primary ITP (5.0%/10.7%) and adult patients with primary AIHA (11.6%/19.5%) in Taiwan were higher than in those in French ITP and AIHA cohorts (1.0%/1.9% and 0.5%/1.0%).1 In addition, when we studied the primary AIHA cohort, we also found that the incidence of SLE was higher in patients aged <18 years than in those aged 18–45 years,4 which was inconsistent with their study.1

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    Footnotes

    • Handling editor Josef S Smolen

    • X-HC and H-HC contributed equally.

    • Contributors FX Z and JCCW conceptualised the research and drafted the manuscript. XH C interpreted the data and drafted the manuscript. HH C contributed to the research design, performed data analysis and graph generation and critically revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

    • Funding This work was supported by funding from Chung Shan Medical University Hospital (grant number CSH-2018-C-023) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 81760298).

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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