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Type 1 lupus covers classic signs that can be measured with the SLE Disease Activity Index. Type 2 symptoms are unclear in origin and have an uncertain connection to inflammation.

Review "Duke Researchers Create a Type 1, Type 2 Lupus Disease Model," The Rheumatologist, October 2020, before taking this month's quiz.

A new disease model for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) tackles issues with fatigue and other serious conditions that, although quite common among patients, get less attention because they fall outside classic symptoms associated with inflammation, a debilitating force behind SLE. The model features subtypes to cate­gorize two main groups of symptoms into type 1 and type 2 SLE.

Which of the following statements about the new disease model for lupus developed collaboratively by lupus researchers and clinicians at Duke University Medical Center is false?

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