Lupus Science And Medicine Podcast

Using patient registries to estimate SLE incidence rate in the USA

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Duane Peters from the Lupus Foundation of America interviews Dr Peter Izmirly from New York University and Dr Elizabeth Ferucci from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, both in the USA. They discuss the establishment of a network of population-based lupus patient registries in the USA and how these have been used to estimate the incidence rate of systemic lupus erythematosus using standardised data stratified by sex, race and ethnicity. Access the article: https://lupus.bmj.com/content/8/1/e000614