Table 3.

Correlations of serum Tim-3 and IL-17 levels with quantitative clinical parameters in SLE patients.

Parameters	Tim-3		IL-17
	rs	P	rs	P
C3	0.237	0.081	0.147	0.284
C4	−0.027	0.849	−0.092	0.510
ESR	0.105	0.453	0.177	0.204
CRP	0.129	0.359	0.139	0.321
SLEDAI-2K	0.028	0.840	−0.005	0.973
Disease duration	−0.213	0.119	−0.044	0.751
IgA	0.262	0.103	0.276	0.085
IgG	0.211	0.191	0.118	0.468
IgM	0.047	0.773	−0.007	0.964

SLE – systemic lupus erythematosus; Tim-3 – T cell immunoglobulin domain and mucin-3; IL-17 – interleukin-17; C3 – Complement 3; C4 – Complement 4; ESR – erythrocyte sedimentation rate; CRP – C-reactive protein; SLEDAI-2K – systemic lupus erythematosus disease activity index 2000; IgA – immunoglobulin A; IgG – immunoglobulin G; IgM – immunoglobulin M.