Table 3.

Correlations between objective and subjective clinical dry eye scores and levels of autoantibodies in serum and tear fluid of SS patients

		Anti-Ro/SSA		Anti-La/SSB
		Serum	Tear	Serum	Tear
Schirmer I test	r	−0.39	−0.05	−0.40	−0.34
	p	0.04	ns	0.03	ns
Tear break up time	r	0.28	0.19	0.19	−0.15
	p	ns	ns	ns	ns
Rose bengal staining	r	0.31	0.34	0.07	0.44
	p	ns	ns	ns	0.02
Dry eye symptom score	r	0.42	0.31	0.48	0.56
	p	0.02	ns	0.01	0.002

r, Spearman correlation coefficient; ns, not significant.