Utilization of electronic health record data to evaluate the association of urban environment with systemic lupus erythematosus symptoms.

The article presents a study on the use of electronic health record data to evaluate the association of urban environment with systemic lupus erythematosus symptoms. Topics include implication of the heterogeneity in disease progression, reason that living in an urban rather than rural environment has become associated with non-communicable disease, and results of multivariate logistic regression for fulfilling SLICC classification criteria.