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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Rheum. 2010 Jul;62(7):2109–2116. doi: 10.1002/art.27469

Table 3.

Relative Risk for Raynauds Phenomenon to Specific Kinship Classes of Patients with Systemic Sclerosis and their Control Families

Cases Controls
Relationship Affected Unaffected Affected Unaffected
First Degree 16 4613 27 49285
Second Degree 10 10219 45 109834
Third Degree 9 10330 71 116626
Fourth Degree 39 63754 80 129513
Logistic Regression
Relationship Relative Risk Confidence Interval P Value
First Degree 6.38 3.44-11.83 4.04e-09
Second Degree 2.39 1.21 - 4.74 0.01224
Third Degree 1.43 0.71 - 2.86 0.315
Fourth Degree 0.99 0.68 - 1.45 0.955