Lupus & antiphospholipid syndrome
Measuring Frailty in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Authors' conclusion
Multiple measures of frailty appear to identify the risk of poor health outcomes.
Study context
- Population
- Participants with SLE in the California Lupus Epidemiology Study
- Exposure
- SLICC-FI vs Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) vs FRAIL scale vs PROMIS PF-10a for frailty
- Outcome
- Agreement among frailty measures and association of each with cross-sectional and longitudinal health outcomes
Methodological detailscross-sectional and longitudinal analyses, comparison of frailty measures, logistic and linear regression, Cox proportional hazards analyses
- Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses
- Comparison of frailty measures
- Logistic and linear regression
- Cox proportional hazards analyses
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Percentages of participants identified as frail, range across measures
10.8% to 45.9%
Agreement among classifications, slight to substantial (k)
0.17 to 0.63
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Measuring Frailty in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). Published 7 January 2025. doi:10.
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