Table 1 Patient background and disease-related characteristics collected at time of inclusion
From: Breastfeeding in women with systemic lupus erythematosus: results from a Norwegian quality register
Number of included women with SLE in the study | N = 114 |
|---|---|
Age mean (SD) | 31.1 (4.7) |
Age ≥ 35 yrs (%) | 30 (26.3) |
Parity n (%) | |
0 | 64 (56.1) |
1 | 34 (29.8) |
≥ 2 | 16 (14.0) |
Smoking / snuff tobacco | 3 (2.6) |
BMI kg/m2 n(%) | |
Underweight (< 18.5 kg/m2) | 4 (4.0) |
Normal weight (18.5–24.9 kg/m2) | 61 (61.6) |
Overweight (≥ 25 kg/m2) | 34 (34.5) |
Regular physical activity (%)a | 51.0 |
Educational levels (%)b | |
Low | 6.4 |
Intermediate | 22.0 |
High | 71.6 |
Working fulltime or part-time (%) | 66.4 |
Disease related characteristics | |
Disease duration in years mean (SD) | 7.6 (5.5) |
CRP mean (SD) | 3.6 (5.0) |
CRP value > 5 mg/L (%) | 16.2 |
Anti-phospholipid antibodies present n (%) | 30 (29.1) |
ANA/ENA CTD screening positive n (%) | 87 (81.3) |
Inflammatory active disease n (%)c | |
No /low disease activity | 87 (88.8) |
Moderate disease activity | 10 (10.2) |
High disease activity | 0 |
Medications | |
HCQ | 85 (74.6) |
sDMARDsd | 34 (29.8) |
bDMARDse | 1 (0.9) |