Janssen Research & Development Researchers Discuss Findings in Lupus [Update on prevalence of diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) by major health insurance types in the US in 2016]: Autoimmune Diseases and Conditions – Lupus

2022 FEB 01 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Pharma Business Daily -- Researchers detail new data in lupus. According to news reporting out of the Janssen Research & Development by NewsRx editors, research stated, “To provide current estimates of the number of patients with prevalent systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) by major health insurance types in the US and to describe patient characteristics.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Janssen Research & Development: “Four large US health insurance claims databases were analyzed to represent different types of insurance coverage, including private insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare Supplemental. Overall unadjusted SLE prevalence per 100,000 persons in the US ranged from 150.1 (private insurance) to 252.9 (Medicare Supplemental insurance). Extrapolating to the US civilian population in 2016, we estimated roughly 345,000 to 404,000 prevalent SLE patients with private/Medicare insurance and 99,000 prevalent SLE patients with Medicaid insurance. Comorbidities, including renal failure/dialysis were commonly observed across multiple organ systems in SLE patients (8.4-21.1%).”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “We estimated a larger number of prevalent SLE cases in the US civilian population than previous reports and observed extensive disease burden based on a 1-year cross-sectional analysis.”

For more information on this research see: Update on prevalence of diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) by major health insurance types in the US in 2016. BMC Research Notes, 2022,15(1):1-6. (BMC Research Notes - http://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com). The publisher for BMC Research Notes is BMC.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05877-1.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Yiting Wang, Janssen Research & Development, LLC. Additional authors for this research include Laura L. Hester, Jennifer Lofland, Shawn Rose, Chetan S. Karyekar, David M. Kern, Margaret Blacketer, Kourtney Davis, Kimberly Shields-Tuttle.

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