Table 3.

Correlation of FCA Severity Score (FCASS) with acute serum levels of inflammatory markers measured in the VIPS study^*

	Baseline FCASS		Maximum FCASS
	n=36		n=36**
Serum Inflammatory Marker	Spearman’s rho	p-value	Spearman’s rho	p-value
hsCRP	0.35	0.036	0.47	0.004
MPO	0.30	0.08	0.28	0.10
SAA	0.20	0.24	0.27	0.11
TNF-α	−0.05	0.75	−0.16	0.34

hsCRP=human C-reactive protein; SAA=serum amyloid A; MPO=myeloperoxidase; TNF-α=tumor necrosis factor alpha

^*Inflammatory markers were not available for 5 of the 41 FCA patients.

^**For those with no follow-up imaging, the baseline score was considered to be the maximum score.