We sought to characterized patterns of aPL testing in a large general population sample from the United States. Using Truven Health MarketScan laboratory data from 2010-2015 we identified individuals tested for lupus anticoagulant(LA), anti-cardiolipin (aCL), and anti-beta2-glycoprotein1(aGP1). Our research was approved by the McGill institutional review board (A04-M47-12B). We identified 33,456 individuals with at least one aPL test. Among these, only 6,391 (19%) had all three tests (LA, aCL, aGP1) performed. Confirmatory aPL testing was performed at least 12 weeks later in 77%, 45%, and 41% of initially positive LA, aCL, and aGP1, respectively. Of those re-tested after ≥12 weeks, only 255 (10.6%) were found to have a confirmatory positive aPL test. These findings highlight that aPL testing may often be incompletely performed. Further investigations will be required to better understand the low rate of a confirmatory positive aPL test ≥12 weeks after the initial test.
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