Changes in the proportion of clinical clusters contribute to the phenotypic evolution of Behçet's disease in Japan.

Yutaro SoejimaYohei KirinoMitsuhiro TakenoMichiko KurosawaMasaki TakeuchiRyusuke YoshimiYumiko SugiyamaShigeru OhnoYukiko AsamiAkiko SekiguchiToshihisa IgarashiShohei NagaokaYoshiaki IshigatsuboHideaki NakajimaNobuhisa Mizuki

Published in: Arthritis research & therapy (2021)

In this study, we identified independent clinical clusters among BD patients in Japan and found that the proportion of each cluster varied over time. We propose five independent clusters namely "mucocutaneous", "mucocutaneous with arthritis", "neuro", "GI", and "eye."

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end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
patient reported outcomes