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