Early Organ Damage Raises Mortality Risk in SLE Patients, Study Suggests

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients with signs of organ damage when first hospitalized, even if they don’t have active disease, are likely to have poorer outcomes, researchers in China reported. Mortality risk was particularly high in SLE patients with neuropsychiatric and cardiopulmonary complications or with evidence of kidney failure. But…