Table 3.

Patient characteristics according to ANA positivity

Parameter	ANA negative n = 41	ANA positive n = 12	P-value
Age [year]	36.58 ±19.78	46.8 ±22.3	0.226*
Gender:
Female	29 (70.7%)	9 (75.0%)	1.00**
Male	12 (29.3%)	3 (25.0%)
Classification of lesion:
Circumscribed morphea	23 (56.1%)	7 (58.3%)	0.409***
Linear morphea	6 (14.6%)	1 (8.3%)
Generalized morphea	12 (29.3%)	3 (33.3%)
Mixed variant morphea		1 (8.3%)

^*Mann-Whitney U test

^**Fishers exact χ² test

^***Pearson exact χ² test.