Table 4 Relation between different categorical data and NFC patterns.

From: Systemic sclerosis in Egyptian population with emphasis on clinical and nailfold capillaroscopic features

Item

Megacapillaries n (%)

Avascular area n (%)

Neoangiogenesis n (%)

Mixed patterns n (%)

P value

Antibodies

ANA

14 (31.1%)

5 (11.1%)

0 (0%)

26 (57.8%)

0.008

ACA

9 (24.3%)

15 (40.5%)

2 (5.4%)

11 (29.7%)

AntiScl-70

2 (22.2%)

5 (55.6%)

0 (0%)

2 (22.2%)

Mixed antibodies

5 (11.6%)

5 (11.6%)

2 (4.7%)

30 (69.8%)

Different affected systems

General

23 (23.5%)

4 (4.1%)

16 (16.3%)

55 (56.1%)

0.042

Peripheral vascular

31 (22.8%)

4 (2.9%)

30 (22.1%)

71 (52.5%)

0.200*

Joint/tendon

18 (26.5%)

1 (1.5%)

20 (29.4%)

29 (42.6%)

0.088

Muscle

16 (24.2%)

3 (4.5%)

8 (12.1%)

39 (59.1%)

0.037

GIT

23 (22.5%)

4 (3.9%)

16 (15.7%)

59 (57.8%)

0.008

Lung

22 (20%)

4 (3.6%)

26 (23.6%)

58 (52.7%)

0.669

Heart

10 (20.4%)

3 (6.1%)

12 (24.5%)

24 (49%)

0.631

Kidney

3 (17.6%)

1 (5.9%)

1 (5.9%)

12 (70.6%)

0.219

Correlation between disease duration and different systems’ affection severity**

Correlation between age and different systems’ affection severity**

Peripheral vascular

r = 0.210

P = 0.002

lung affection

r = 0.135

P = 0.044

Skin

r = 0.135

P = 0.045

Muscle affection

r = − 0.152

P = 0.023

GIT

r = 0.196

P = 0.003

   

Lung affection

r = 0.190

P = 0.005

   

SPAP

r = 0.134

P = 0.046

   

Medseger’s severity score

r = 0.189

P = 0.005

   
  1. n (%): number, Frequency. Chisquare test was applied, *only digital ulcer was significant with different capillaroscopic features, **Spearman’s correlate. Significant values are in [bold].
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