Open AccessMortality and prognostic factors in Spanish patients with systemic sclerosis
Author(s) -
C.P. Simeón
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
british journal of rheumatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1460-2172
pISSN - 0263-7103
DOI - 10.1093/rheumatology/keg033
Subject(s) - medicine , proportional hazards model , cohort , population , scleroderma (fungus) , mortality rate , survival analysis , multivariate analysis , vital capacity , survival rate , diffusing capacity , lung , pathology , lung function , environmental health , inoculation
To determine survival and mortality in a cohort of Spanish patients with scleroderma (systemic sclerosis, SSc) and to analyse whether survival is influenced by demographic, clinical or immunological variables or the extent of skin involvement.