Research Article
Neuropsychiatric Involvement in Juvenile-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Table 1
Comparison between patients with and without nervous system involvement in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus.
| | Parameters | With neuropsychiatric
Symptoms
(41) | Without neuropsychiatric
Symptoms
(105) | P-value |
| | Sex, N (%) | | | | | male | 9 (22) | 27 (25.7) | P > 0.05 | | female | 32 (78) | 78 (74.3) | P > 0.05 | | Age (years) | | | | | < 5 | 1 (2.4) | 6 (5.7) | P > 0.05 | | 5 – 10 | 7 (17.1) | 19 (18.1) | P > 0.05 | | >10 | 33 (80.1) | 80 (76.2) | P > 0.05 | | Mortality % | 2 (4.9) | 4 (3.8) | P > 0.05 | | ANA ≥ 1 : 1280 | 37 (90.2) | 90 (85.7) | P > 0.05 | | Anti-dsDNA elevation | 34 (82.9) | 70 (66.7) | P = | | Thrombocytopenia | 16 (39) | 24 (22.8) | P = 0.02 |
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ANA = anti-nuclear antibodies; dsDNA = double-stranded DNA; statistically significant. |
