title: [Indexes used to evaluate the disease activity of Sjögren's syndrome].
abstract: Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is a systemic autoimmune disease that mainly affects the exocrine glands. A set of indexes have been established to evaluate the disease activity in SS, including symptoms, systemic characteristics, and long-term disease damage as well as the patients' quality of life. This article briefly introduced the background, content, and scoring rules of SS indexes. Current clinical applications and prospects were also reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Oral Surgery, The Ninth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai 200011, China.
authors.forename: Zhijun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Chuangqi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Lingyan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zheng
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D012859:Sjogren's Syndrome