While antibody and cell-based biologic therapies target pathogenesis-driving molecules, they suppress key immune pathways and thus infection remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Accordingly, this review also addresses nonpharmacologic strategies - such as dietary modifications - that may confer therapeutic benefit without increasing susceptibility to infection. With a rapidly expanding portfolio of mechanistically driven clinical trials, the future of SLE management appears increasingly promising.
Poudyal et al. (Sat,) studied this question.