⁶Ahmed Qasim Mohammed Alhatemi, ¹Hashim Talib Hashim, ⁷Hossam Tharwat Ali, ²Idris Sula, ³Hozifa Alfak, ³Abdelrahim Elamin, ⁴Alaa Hamza Hermis, ⁵Ahmed Dheyaa Al-Obaidi, ⁵Mustafa Najah Al-Obaidi

¹University of Warith Al-Anbiyaa, College of Medicine, ²College of Applied Sciences, Sulaiman Al Rajhi University, ³Omdurman Islamic University, ⁴Al-Mustaqbal University Colleg, ⁵University of Baghdad, College of Medicine, ⁶Al Nasiriyah Teaching Hospital, ⁷Qena Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University

Objective(s):

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a recurrent and remitting autoimmune disease that affects many organ systems. It is more common in women of reproductive age, with a 9:1 female preponderance. The interaction of genes with environmental variables causes many immunologic changes, culminating in chronic immune reactions to autologous nucleic acids.

Method(s):

It is a cross-sectional study in Baghdad Medical Complex in Iraq. All SLE patients who attended outpatient clinic between September and December 2022 were included. The patients included those who came for follow-up, deterioration of their symptoms, or first-time diagnosis.

Results:

SLE is much more prevalent among female patients. The ratio of female and male patients in our study was 19 to 1 which is higher than the literature. Other studies have reported male – female ratios ranging from 1-4 till 1 to 15.  This disease is much more common in reproductive age and our patients mean age is 34 years old even though the rage was quite wide from 15 to 85 years. SLE comes along with many clinical findings. Patients with SLE are characterized by rashes in their bodies especially in their faces