International consensus shifts Sjögren’s from syndrome to disease

Key takeaways:

The nomenclature of ‘Sjögren syndrome’ was deemed unsatisfactory.

Sjögren’s disease is preferable in both clinical and research settings.

The preferred nomenclature for the condition formerly known as “Sjögren’s syndrome” has been changed to Sjögren’s disease , according to an international consensus statement published in Nature Reviews Rheumatology.

The authors of the statement, including Alan Baer, MD, professor of medicine and founder of the Jerome L. Greene Sjögren’s Disease Center at Johns Hopkins University, described the use of the term syndrome as “unsatisfactory.”

“The term ‘syndrome’ denotes an aggregate of symptoms and signs that are associated with a morbid process, independent of pathogenesis,” Baer told Healio. “‘Viral syndrome’ and ‘chronic pain syn