Differences in Clinical Features and Mortality between Childhood-onset and Adult-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Prospective Single-center Study

Abstract

The clinical course of cSLE as measured by number of clinical manifestations and disease activity is worse than that of aSLE. Also, cSLE patients with hemolytic anemia and aPL are at greater risk of death than patients with aSLE who have those features.