Symptom-Based Cluster Analysis Categorizes Sjögren's Disease Subtypes: An International Cohort Study Highlighting Disease Severity and Treatment Discordance.
Sara S McCoyMiguel WoodhamChristie M BartelsIan J SaldanhaVatinee Y BunyaNoah MaerzEsen K AkpekMatthew A MakaraAlan N BaerPublished in: Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) (2022)
We identified 4 symptom-based Sjögren's clusters and showed that symptom burden and immunomodulatory medication use do not correlate with Sjögren's end-organ or laboratory abnormalities. Findings highlight a discordance between objective measures and treatments and offer updates to proposed symptom-based clustering approaches.