Table III.

Correlation of calculated scores for TNF-α with age, age at onset and duration of disease.

	Dif max		Dif average		Dif min
Parameters	r	P-value	r	P-value	r	P-value
Age (years)	−0.150	0.539	−0.088	0.720	−0.150	0.539
Age at onset (years)	0.81	0.743	0.044	0.859	0.81	0.743
Duration of disease (years)	0.114	0.743	−0.46	0.853	0.114	0.743

r, Spearman correlation coefficient; TNF-α, tumor necrosis factor-α.