Temporal trends in mortality in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a Danish population-based matched cohort study.

Objective: Excess mortality has been demonstrated in patients with SLE compared with the general population. We aimed to investigate the 5-year and 10-year all-cause mortality in patients with SLE compared with the general population in recent decades.

Methods: This was a Danish nationwide population-based exposure-matched cohort study.