Longitudinal evaluation of the prevalence of overweight/obesity in children with congenital heart disease.

Background: Regarding long-term cardiovascular health, obesity may have greater implications for children with congenital heart disease (CHD). We sought to determine trends in anthropometry over time and its association with exercise capacity.

Methods: Medical records of pediatric patients with CHD were randomly sampled.

Clinical features and prognosis of late-onset systemic lupus erythematosus: results from the 1000 faces of lupus study.

Objective: There is controversy whether older-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with a different, more benign disease course than in younger-onset SLE. Our objective was to characterize the clinical features and prognosis of late-onset SLE in a large, multicenter cohort.

Methods: We studied adult-onset lupus in the 1000 Canadian Faces of Lupus cohort (n = 1528) of whom 10.