Pregnancies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus during 2000-2018 in Finland: a case-control study.

Objectives: The aim was to investigate, how pregnancies proceed in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) compared to their individually matched population controls.

Material And Methods: Adult incident SLE patients were identified from the register of new special reimbursement decisions for SLE drugs in 2000-2014. For each patient, 1-3 randomly selected controls from the Population Register Centre were matched.

Depressive symptoms decrease health-related quality of life of patients with coronary artery disease and diabetes: a 12-month follow up study in primary care.

Objective: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is a multidimensional patient-related outcome. Less is known about the role of depressive symptoms on HRQoL in chronic diseases. This follow-up study analyzed depressive symptoms' association with HRQoL change measured with 15D in patients with chronic diseases.

Inflammatory myositis-associated interstitial lung disease can be distinguished from that associated with other connective tissue diseases.

Background: Acute onset of interstitial lung disease (ILD) has been described in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myositis (IIM), but controlled studies about this issue are sparse. The aim of this study was to compare disease onset, demographics, and high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) patterns in IIM-ILD and other connective tissue disease (CTD)-ILDs.

Methods: Clinical and radiological data of 22 IIM-ILD and 132 other CTD-ILD patients was retrospectively gathered from hospital registries between January 2000 and November 2019.

Incidence of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis in population-based studies in Northern Savo, Finland, during 1980-2020.

The objective is to evaluate the incidence of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) over 40-year period in Northern Savo, Finland. Data on new seropositive RA patients according to the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1987 classification criteria were collected in 2020-2021. In 2020 data on tobacco exposure, patient-reported dental health and living in residences with fluoridated tap water were gathered.

Malignancies among newly diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus patients and their survival.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the incidence of malignancies among newly diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients compared to reference individuals. Another aim was to assess the survival of SLE patients with malignancy compared to references with malignancy. Finnish adult (>17 years) newly diagnosed SLE patients were identified by their drug reimbursement decisions made during 1.