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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Dermatol. 2018 Nov 22;180(6):1468–1472. doi: 10.1111/bjd.17257

Table 2:

Associations between fatigue and selected variables in patients with autoimmune skin diseases

SLE CLE ADM AIBD
OR 95% CI P value OR 95% CI P value OR 95% CI P value OR 95% CI P value
Demographics
  Mean age 1.01 0.99 to 1.04 0.36 0.10 0.98 to 1.02 0.69 0.995 0.97 to 1.02 0.73 1.01 0.98 to 1.04 0.46
  Female Sex 6.36 1.36 to 29.69 0.02 3.21 1.48 to 6.97 0.003 1.25 0.36 to 4.31 0.72 1.09 0.42 to 2.87 0.86
  Smoking status 1.33 0.62 to 2.83 0.47 1.55 0.87 to 2.78 0.14 3.41 0.78 to 14.99 0.10 0.75 0.07 to 7.64 0.81
Comorbidities
  HTN 1.38 0.67 to 2.84 0.38 0.91 0.44 to 1.86 0.79 1.57 0.65 to 3.80 0.65 1.35 0.51 to 3.62 0.55
  Diabetes 1.00 1.00 2.87 0.46 to 17.78 0.26 0.22 0.03 to 1.86 0.17
  Hypothyroid Disease 1.14 0.39 to 3.31 0.81 1.08 0.44 to 2.64 0.87 2.63 0.96 to 7.20 0.06 2.00 0.49 to 8.22 0.34
Medications
  Antimalarials 1.54 0.74 to 3.19 0.25 0.97 0.55 to 1.73 0.93 1.41 0.66 to 3.04 0.38
  Immunosuppressants 0.87 0.46 to 1.65 0.66 2.60 1.28 to 5.28 0.008 0.79 0.36 to 1.77 0.57 0.93 0.35 to 2.47 0.89
SF-36 Mental Health Score 0.94 0.92 to 0.96 <0.001 0.96 0.94 to 0.97 <0.001 0.94 0.92 to 0.97 <0.001 0.95 0.92 to 0.98 <0.001

AIBD, autoimmune blistering diseases; ADM, amyopathic dermatomyositis; CI, confidence interval; CLE, cutaneous lupus erythematosus; HTN, hypertension; OR, odds ratio; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus