Section of Rheumatology, Casa di Cura, Lecco, Italy.
Ann Rheum Dis. 2013 Apr;72(4):476-8. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2012-202565. Epub 2012 Dec 22.
A new approach for the classification of patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS) has been recently proposed. Although these new criteria substantially differ from the American European Consensus Group criteria, which have represented the gold standard for the last decade, when compared with each other the two sets show a high statistical degree of agreement. However, the fact that two different criteria to classify patient with SS could be available may introduce some additional difficulties in the scientific communication, making cohorts of patients selected by using different methods less than completely equivalent, and the results of epidemiological studies and therapeutic trials not entirely comparable. Consequently, to reach a consensus agreement on universally accepted classification criteria for SS seems to be a very desirable objective.
最近提出了一种新的干燥综合征 (SS) 患者分类方法。尽管这些新标准与过去十年的金标准——美国欧洲共识组标准有很大不同，但与其他标准相比，两者具有高度的统计学一致性。然而，有两种不同的标准来分类 SS 患者可能会在科学交流中引入一些额外的困难，使用不同方法选择的患者队列不太完全等同，流行病学研究和治疗试验的结果也不完全可比。因此，就普遍接受的 SS 分类标准达成共识似乎是一个非常理想的目标。
