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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cornea. 2019 Dec;38(12):1500–1505. doi: 10.1097/ICO.0000000000002147

Table 3:

Comparison of Ocular Staining Score (OSS) score by novel autoantibody status at baseline in the Penn Sjogren’s International Clinical Collaborative Alliance (SICCA) Study Participants without Sjogren’s Syndrome (n=129)

Novel antibody Novel Antibody Absence Novel Antibody Presence
n Mean (SD) n Mean (SD) P-value
Salivary protein 1 (SP-1)
IgG 123 4.8 (3.0) 6 4.5 (1.4) 0.79
IgA 125 4.8 (2.9) 4 5.5 (2.9) 0.63
IgM 123 4.7 (3.0) 6 6.7 (1.6) 0.11
Any 113 4.7 (3.0) 16 5.6 (2.0) 0.27
Carbonic anhydrase 6 (CA-6)
IgG 121 4.8 (2.9) 8 4.4 (3.3) 0.67
IgA 120 4.8 (2.9) 9 4.8 (3.5) 0.98
IgM 117 4.7 (2.9) 12 5.7 (3.3) 0.29
Any 103 4.8 (2.9) 26 4.8 (3.1) 0.94
Parotid specific protein (PSP)
IgG 123 4.7 (2.9) 6 6.8 (2.3) 0.08
IgA 115 4.9 (2.9) 14 3.8 (2.8) 0.17
IgM 118 4.7 (2.9) 11 6.0 (3.4) 0.16
Any 102 4.8 (2.9) 27 4.8 (3.0) 0.96
Any novel antibody 83 4.9 (3.0) 46 4.7 (2.9) 0.75
 Number of novel antibodies positive
0 83 4.8 (3.0)
1 24 4.1 (2.9)
2–3* 22 5.4 (2.8)
P=0.32 (any difference)
P=0.69 for linear trend test
*

Only 1 patient had a value of 3.