BILAG index (version 3) for each organ system on suicidal attempts*
| BILAG index for each organ system | |||||||||||||||
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| Patient No | Age/sex/ ethnic group | Date of suicide | General manifestations | Mucocutaneous | CNS | Musculoskeletal | CVS/ respiratory | Vasculitis | Renal | Haematological | Total score | DNA‡ | C3§ | ESR | Lymphocytes (109/l) |
| *The BILAG index is scored as follows: A, disease of sufficient activity to warrant disease modifying treatment with high dose steroids or immunosupression; B, disease of less activity than in A, requiring only symptomatic treatment, antimalarial drugs, or low dose steroids; C, stable mild disease; D, system was previously affected but currently inactive; E, system was never involved; †no data available on patient 1 at the time of the last suicide attempt; ‡DNA: normal range <50 units/ml; §C3: normal values 0.75–1.75 mg/ml; B, black; I, Indian; W, white; M, male; F, female; CNS, central nervous system; CVS, cardiovascular system. | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 39/F/W | 5/99 | B | C | B | D | D | C | E | D | 8 | 260 | 0.87 | 3 | 2.2 |
| 1 | 9/00 | B | C | D | D | D | C | E | C | 6 | 262 | 0.9 | 5 | 1.1 | |
| 1 | 4/01† | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 2 | 53/F/I | 8/89 | B | D | B | B | C | D | E | B | 13 | 1800 | 0.93 | 14 | 0.3 |
| 3 | 29/F/W | 10/95 | C | D | D | C | B | E | D | C | 3 | 68 | 1.16 | 43 | 1.2 |
| 4 | 40/F/B | 12/99 | C | C | A | C | D | D | E | C | 13 | 170 | 1.2 | – | 1.2 |
| 5 | 44/M/W | 7/99 | C | D | B | B | E | E | E | C | 7 | 10 | 1.2 | 9 | 0.6 |