Prevalence and etiology of low bone mineral density in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Studies of adults with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have frequently demonstrated the presence of decreased bone mineral density (BMD). However, there have been few investigations in pediatric patients to date. This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of low BMD in patients with juvenile SLE and to identify associated risk factors. METHODS: We studied 64 consecutive patients with juvenile SLE in whom routine dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scanning was performed. Lumbar spine osteopenia was defined as a BMD Z score of < -1 and > or = -2.5, and osteoporosis as a BMD Z score of < -2.5. Decreased hip BMD was defined as a value of < 80%. Data on disease activity, quality of life, disease-related damage, sex, ethnicity, body mass index, age at diagnosis, age at DXA, medication use and duration, clinical features, and puberty status were collected at the time of DXA. RESULTS: Lumbar spine osteopenia was seen in 24 patients (37.5%) and osteoporosis in 13 (20.3%). Decreased hip BMD was present in 12 patients (18.8%). By univariate analysis, osteopenia was significantly correlated with age, disease duration, duration of corticosteroid use, cumulative corticosteroid dose, azathioprine use, cyclophosphamide use, lupus nephritis, and damage. Two additional variables, mycophenolate mofetil use and class III-IV nephritis, were associated with osteoporosis. Abnormal hip BMD was associated with disease duration, duration of corticosteroid use, and cumulative corticosteroid dose. By multivariate analysis, only disease duration remained in the model for osteoporosis and abnormal hip BMD, while cumulative corticosteroid dose was the variable associated with osteopenia. CONCLUSION: These results indicate that osteopenia and osteoporosis are common in juvenile SLE and are associated more closely with increased disease duration than with cumulative corticosteroid dose.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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