Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS

How well do the new classification criteria for SLE perform?

Nature Reviews Rheumatology volume 17, pages 7–8 (2021)Cite this article

Subjects

The new 2019 EULAR–ACR classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) performed well in the initial derivative and validation cohorts. But do these criteria outperform previous classification criteria across sexes, disease durations or ethnicities?

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

References

  1. Pons-Estel, G. J., Alarcón, G. S., Scofield, L., Reinlib, L. & Cooper, G. S. Understanding the epidemiology and progression of systemic lupus erythematosus. Semin. Arthritis Rheum. 39, 257–268 (2010).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Aggarwal, R. et al. Distinctions between diagnostic and classification criteria? Arthritis Care Res. 67, 891–897 (2015).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Johnson, S. R. et al. Performance of the 2019 EULAR/ACR classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus in early disease, across sexes and ethnicities. Ann. Rheum. Dis. 79, 1333–1339 (2020).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Aringer, M. et al. 2019 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus. Ann. Rheum. Dis. 78, 1151–1159 (2019).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Adamichou, C. et al. In an early SLE cohort the ACR-1997, SLICC-2012 and EULAR/ACR-2019 criteria classify non-overlapping groups of patients: use of all three criteria ensures optimal capture for clinical studies while their modification earlier classification and treatment. Ann. Rheum. Dis. 79, 232–241 (2020).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Uribe, A. G., McGwin, G. Jr, Reveille, J. D. & Alarcón, G. S. What have we learned from a 10-year experience with the LUMINA (Lupus in Minorities: Nature vs. nurture) cohort? Were are we heading? Autoimmunity Rev. 3, 321–329 (2004).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Pons-Estel, G. J. et al. Applying the 2019 EULAR/ACR lupus criteria to patients from an established cohort: a Latin American perspective. RMD Open 6, e001097 (2020).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Ugarte-Gil, M. F. et al. Applying the 2019 EULAR/ACR Lupus criteria to patients from the LUMINA cohort. Arthritis Care Res. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.24367 (2020).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Petri, M. et al. A Comparison of 2019 EULAR/ACR SLE classification criteria with two sets of earlier SLE classification criteria. Arthritis Care Res. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.24263 (2020).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Dahlström, Ö. & Sjöwall, C. The diagnostic accuracies of the 2012 SLICC criteria and the proposed EULAR/ACR criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus classification are comparable. Lupus 28, 778–782 (2019).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Argentina

    Guillermo J. Pons-Estel

  2. Servicio de Reumatología, Hospital Provincial de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina

    Guillermo J. Pons-Estel

  3. Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Graciela S. Alarcón

  4. Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú

    Graciela S. Alarcón

Authors
  1. Guillermo J. Pons-Estel
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Graciela S. Alarcón
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Guillermo J. Pons-Estel.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Pons-Estel, G.J., Alarcón, G.S. How well do the new classification criteria for SLE perform?. Nat Rev Rheumatol 17, 7–8 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41584-020-00545-3

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41584-020-00545-3

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing