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Correspondence on “New EULAR/ACR 2019 SLE classification criteria: defining ominosity in SLE”
  1. Guillermo J Pons-Estel1,
  2. Manuel F. Ugarte-Gil2,3,
  3. Guillermina B Harvey4,
  4. Bernardo A Pons-Estel1,
  5. Graciela S Alarcón5,6
  1. 1 Departament of Rheumatology, Grupo Oroño-Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
  2. 2 Rheumatology, Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen. EsSalud, Lima, Peru
  3. 3 Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru
  4. 4 Escuela de Estadística, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Estadística, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
  5. 5 Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
  6. 6 Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
  1. Correspondence to Dr Guillermo J Pons-Estel, Departament of Rheumatology, Grupo Oroño-Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina; gponsestel{at}hotmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-220994

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    We read with interest the report by Whittall Garcia et al 1 on ominosity, a proxy for the threatening role of the 2019 European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Classification Criteria Score; in this article, the authors propose that a score of ≥20 predicts disease severity within 5 years of disease diagnosis. We would like to congratulate the authors for their novel approach in using these criteria as predictors. In their study, the authors included two cohorts: (1) a single-centre inception cohort that included 867 patients with SLE with a mean disease duration, from diagnosis to the first visit of 0.2 years in which they developed the concept, and (2) a validation cohort that included 807 patients from the multiethnic, multinational Systemic Lupus International …

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    • Contributors All the authors contributed to the concept and writing of this letter.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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

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