TY - JOUR T1 - Do 2019 European League against rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus also indicate the disease activity? JF - Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases JO - Ann Rheum Dis SP - e22 LP - e22 DO - 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217017 VL - 81 IS - 2 AU - Jialin Teng AU - Zhuochao Zhou AU - Fan Wang AU - Yue Sun AU - Hong-Lei Liu AU - Xiaobing Cheng AU - Yutong Su AU - Hui Shi AU - Chengde Yang AU - Junna Ye Y1 - 2022/02/01 UR - http://ard.bmj.com/content/81/2/e22.abstract N2 - The 2019 European League against rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology classification criteria (2019 criteria) for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has introduced a new scoring system to classify SLE.1 It is a thrill for rheumatologists to get the new SLE classification criteria, which has both excellent sensitivity and specificity, and further demonstrated by other studies to be effective in the early SLE diagnosis and distinguish patients with SLE from patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome.2 3 It has also been reported that higher scores of 2019 criteria were associated with higher rates of organ damage.4 While using antinuclear antibody (ANA) as an entry criterion, these hierarchically clustered and weighted criteria made a significant breakthrough compared with the past several criteria. However, based on the thinking of weighted criteria, we are … ER -