Table 2 Relative risk (RR) and corresponding 95% Confidence intervals for the significant association between patient characteristics and disease worsening.

From: Role of circulating endothelial cells in assessing the severity of systemic sclerosis and predicting its clinical worsening

Variable

RR

95% CI

Subset of SSc

Diffuse cutaneous versus limited cutaneous

3.49

(1.39–8.80)

mRSS

18–30 versus < 18

3.41

(1.21–9.65)

 > 30 versus < 30

3.63

(0.95–13.81)

Ab anti-SCL70

Presence versus absence

2.85

(1.23–6.56)

CEC

 > 414 versus ≤ 414

5.70

(2.37–13.74)

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