ArticleRheumatology (Oxford, England)2023
Systemic lupus erythematosus phenotypes formed from machine learning with a specific focus on cognitive impairment.
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- Artificial Intelligence-based detection of neuropsychiatric lupus: an exploratory meta-analysis of neuroimaging and multimodal biomarker models.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2026Pooled it
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- Can conventional brain MRI support the attribution process in neuropsychiatric SLE? A multicentre retrospective study.Lupus science & medicine · 2025Article
- Outcome clusters and their stability over 1 year in patients with SLE: self-reported and performance-based cognitive function, disease activity, mood and health-related quality of life.Lupus science & medicine · 2024Article
- Systemic lupus in the era of machine learning medicine.Lupus science & medicine · 2024Review
- The Effects of Systemic Lupus-Related Cognitive Impairments on Activities of Daily Living and Life Role Participation: A Qualitative Framework Study.ACR open rheumatology · 2024Article
- SVM-Based Model Combining Patients' Reported Outcomes and Lymphocyte Phenotypes of Depression in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.Biomolecules · 2023Article
- Application of Machine Learning Models in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Serum S100A8/A9 and MMP-9 levels are elevated in systemic lupus erythematosus patients with cognitive impairment.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo phenotype SLE based on symptom burden (disease damage, system involvement and patient reported outcomes), with a specific focus on objective and subjective cognitive function.
methodsSLE patients ages 18-65 years underwent objective cognitive assessment using the ACR Neuropsychological Battery (ACR-NB) and data were collected on demographic and clinical variables, disease burden/activity, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), depression, anxiety, fatigue and perceived cognitive deficits. Similarity network fusion (SNF) was used to identify patient subtypes. Differences between the subtypes were evaluated using Kruskal-Wallis and χ2 tests.
resultsOf the 238 patients, 90% were female, with a mean age of 41 years (s.d. 12) and a disease duration of 14 years (s.d. 10) at the study visit. The SNF analysis defined two subtypes (A and B) with distinct patterns in objective and subjective cognitive function, disease burden/damage, HRQoL, anxiety and depression. Subtype A performed worst on all significantly different tests of objective cognitive function (P < 0.03) compared with subtype B. Subtype A also had greater levels of subjective cognitive function (P < 0.001), disease burden/damage (P < 0.04), HRQoL (P < 0.001) and psychiatric measures (P < 0.001) compared with subtype B.
conclusionThis study demonstrates the complexity of cognitive impairment (CI) in SLE and that individual, multifactorial phenotypes exist. Those with greater disease burden, from SLE-specific factors or other factors associated with chronic conditions, report poorer cognitive functioning and perform worse on objective cognitive measures. By exploring different ways of phenotyping SLE we may better define CI in SLE. Ultimately this will aid our understanding of personalized CI trajectories and identification of appropriate treatments.
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