Table 2. Pro-apoptotic Bax and Bad in correlation with SLE.

Factors	Control (n=60)		SLE (n=60)		p†
	Median	IQR	Median	IQR
Autophagy protein
Bax/ß-actin	0.76	0.69-0.80	0.72	0.65-0.74	0.008
Bad/ß-actin	0.89	0.84-0.98	0.84	0.74-0.89	<0.001
Index	19.64	17.74-20.9	17.80	15.22-20.53	0.004
Index= (Bax*Bad)/b-actin; † Mann-Whitney U test; p<0.05 considered significant; IQR: Inter quartile range.