Smith, EMD;
Tharmaratnam, K;
Al-Abadi, E;
Armon, K;
Bailey, K;
Brennan, M;
Ciurtin, C;
... Beresford, MW; + view all
(2021)
Attainment of Low Disease Activity and Remission Targets reduces the risk of severe flare and new damage in Childhood Lupus.
Rheumatology
10.1093/rheumatology/keab915.
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Abstract
Objectives: To assess the achievability and effect of attaining low disease activity (LDA) or remission in childhood (cSLE). / Methods: Attainment of three adult-SLE derived definitions of LDA (LLDAS, LA, Toronto-LDA), and four definitions of remission (clinical-SLEDAI-defined remission on/off treatment, pBILAG-defined remission on/off treatment) was assessed in UK JSLE Cohort Study patients longitudinally. Prentice-Williams-Petersen-GAP recurrent event models assessed the impact of LDA/remission attainment on severe flare/new damage. / Results: LLDAS, LA and Toronto-LDA targets were reached in 67%, 73% and 32% of patients, after a median of 18, 15 or 17 months, respectively. Cumulatively, LLDAS, LA and Toronto-LDA was attained for a median of 23%, 31% and 19% of total follow-up-time, respectively. Remission on-treatment was more common (61% cSLEDAI-defined, 42% pBILAG-defined) than remission off-treatment (31% cSLEDAI-defined, 21% pBILAG-defined). Attainment of all target states, and disease duration (>1 year), significantly reduced the hazard of severe flare (p< 0.001). As cumulative time in each target increased, hazard of severe flare progressively reduced. LLDAS attainment reduced the hazard of severe flare more than LA or Toronto-LDA (p< 0.001). Attainment of LLDAS and all remission definitions led to a statistically comparable reduction in the hazards of severe flare (p> 0.05). Attainment of all targets reduced the hazards of new damage (p< 0.05). / Conclusions: This is the first study demonstrating that adult-SLE-derived definitions of LDA/remission are achievable in cSLE, significantly reducing risk of severe flare/new damage. Of the LDA definitions, LLDAS performed best, leading to a statistically comparable reduction in the hazards of severe flare to attainment of clinical-remission.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Attainment of Low Disease Activity and Remission Targets reduces the risk of severe flare and new damage in Childhood Lupus |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/rheumatology/keab915 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keab915 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Childhood-SLE, cSLE, treat-to-target, T2T, low disease activity, remission |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Inflammation |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10141170 |
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