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. 2024 Jan 4;8(2):ziad007. doi: 10.1093/jbmrpl/ziad007

Table 4.

Correlations between number of active lesions, their SUVmax, and biochemical and clinical disease activity parameters in patients with CNO.

ESR CRP P1NP CTx ALP VAS (pain)
No. of active bone lesions (range 1–13) 0.285* 0.200 −0.002 0.306* 0.307* 0.318*
No. of active soft tissue/joint lesions (range 0–11) 0.160 −0.061 −0.184 0.045 0.001 0.167
Mean SUVmax bone lesions −0.083 −0.196 0.163 0.231 0.105 −0.127
Mean SUVmax soft tissue/joint lesions 0.546** 0.214 0.088 −0.145 0.255 −0.127

Abbreviations: ALP, alkaline phosphatase; CNO, chronic nonbacterial osteitis; CRP, C-reactive protein; CTx, C-terminal telopeptide of type 1 collagen; ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate; P1NP, procollagen 1N-terminal propeptide; SUVmax, maximum standardized uptake value; VAS, visual analog scale.

*p < .05, **p < .01.