Table 2.

Characteristics of the included patients with pSS

Background variables	Total, n = 114
Females, n (%)	109 (95·6)
Age at blood sampling, mean years (range, years)	61·8 (24–82)
Caucasian ethnicity, n (%)	111 (97·4)
Disease variables
Patients meeting American–European consensus criteria † , n (%)	114 (100)
Anti‐phospholipid syndrome (defined by classification ‡ ), n (%)	2 (1·8)
Established autoimmune liver disease, n (%)	3 (2·6)
Autoimmune hepatitis, n (%)	3 (2·6)
Primary biliary cholangitis, n (%)	0 (0)
Extra‐glandular manifestations, n (%)	51 (44·7)

^†According to Vitali et al. [37];

^‡according to Miyakis et al. [51].

pSS = primary Sjögren’s syndrome.