Table 5 Modified SLEDAI scores in relation to occurrence of individual ANA specificities in sera and IC.

From: Accumulation of antinuclear associated antibodies in circulating immune complexes is more prominent in SLE patients from Sudan than Sweden

 

Serum

IC

ANA

SLEDAI median in antibody neg/pos patients

Sudan

P

SLEDAI median in antibody neg/pos patients

Sweden

P

SLEDAI median in antibody neg/pos patients

Sudan

P

SLEDAI median in antibody neg/pos patients

Sweden

P

SSA/Ro52

0/0

0.3

0/1

0.07

0/0

0.6

0/1

0.08

SSA/Ro60

0/0

0.2

0/1

0.007

0/0

0.5

0/1

0.02

SSB/La

0/1

0.2

0/0

0.2

0/0

0.9

0/0

0.6

Sm

0/3

0.0007

0/1

0.06

0/2

0.08

0/1

0.5

SmRNP

0/2

0.004

0/1

0.1

0/0

0.2

0/1

0.08

U1RNP

0/2

0.001

0/1

0.1

0/2

0.001

0/1

0.002

dsDNA

0/0

0.1

0/0

0.2

0/0

0.7

0/1

0.02

Histone

0/0

0.2

0/1

0.01

0/0

0.1

0/2

 < 0.0001

Ribosomal P

0/2

0.3

0/1

0.1

0/0

0.3

0/0

0.9

PCNA

0/0

0.5

0/1

0.2

0/0

0.8

0/1

0.06

  1. Data are expressed as median score of SLEDAI among autoantibody negative vs. positive patients. Significant P values are depicted in bold.