Demographic and clinical features of 1,012 Italianpatients evaluated at the beginning and at the end offollow-up (mean, 7.1 yr 5.7 SD) are shown in Table3. At the last evaluation, 636 (62.8%) patients werealive, 279 (27.6%) were known to have died, and 97(9.6%) were considered lost to follow-up. These lattershowed the same clinico-serologic characteristics ofthe 915 patients evaluated for survival study. The female/male ratio rose from 7.8 of the entire SSc populationat first visit to 10.4 of the surviving 636 patients.At the time of diagnosis lcSSc was the most frequentcutaneous subset; its rather high prevalence was significantlymore pronounced at the end of follow-up(p .01). Similarly, the prevalence of various clinicalfeatures referring to both living and deceased patients(n 915) significantly increased, with the exceptionof Raynaud, calcinosis, and renal involvement; onlyarthritis was less frequently observed.
Systemic sclerosis: demographic, clinical, and serologic features and survival in 1,012 Italian patients / Ferri, Clodoveo; Valentini, G.; Cozzi, F.; Sebastiani, Marco; Michelassi, C.; La Montagna, G.; Bullo, A.; Cazzato, M.; Tirri, E.; Storino, F.; Giuggioli, D.; Cuomo, G.; Rosada, M.; Bombardieri, S.; Todesco, S.; Tirri, G.. - In: MEDICINE. - ISSN 0025-7974. - 81:2(2002), pp. 139-153. [10.1097/00005792-200203000-00004]
Systemic sclerosis: demographic, clinical, and serologic features and survival in 1,012 Italian patients
SEBASTIANI, Marco;
2002-01-01
Abstract
Demographic and clinical features of 1,012 Italianpatients evaluated at the beginning and at the end offollow-up (mean, 7.1 yr 5.7 SD) are shown in Table3. At the last evaluation, 636 (62.8%) patients werealive, 279 (27.6%) were known to have died, and 97(9.6%) were considered lost to follow-up. These lattershowed the same clinico-serologic characteristics ofthe 915 patients evaluated for survival study. The female/male ratio rose from 7.8 of the entire SSc populationat first visit to 10.4 of the surviving 636 patients.At the time of diagnosis lcSSc was the most frequentcutaneous subset; its rather high prevalence was significantlymore pronounced at the end of follow-up(p .01). Similarly, the prevalence of various clinicalfeatures referring to both living and deceased patients(n 915) significantly increased, with the exceptionof Raynaud, calcinosis, and renal involvement; onlyarthritis was less frequently observed.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
