Clinical Characteristics and Outcome of Primary Sjogren's Syndrome: A Large Asian Indian Cohort.

CONCLUSION: Our cohort of patients with SS has characteristic clinical features; some of them are in contrast with previous observations reported in European patients. This cohort consisted of two distinct patient clusters. The first cluster was associated with major systemic illness and high antibody titers, where as the second cluster comprised of seronegative patients with mild disease. Association of antibody positivity with systemic features was further confirmed on logistic regression analysis. PMID: 26161156 [PubMed]

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Source: Open Rheumatology Journal - July 13, 2015 Category: Rheumatology Tags: Open Rheumatol J Source Type: research