Table 2.
Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients between calprotectin, US scores, and other variables.
ESR | CRP | DAS28-ESR | DAS28-CRP | CDAI | SDAI | HAQ | Syn | Ten | PD syn | US7 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Calprotectin | 0.361*** | 0.306** | 0.488*** | 0.495*** | 0.482*** | 0.429*** | 0.327** | 0.441*** | 0.360*** | 0.359*** | 0.444*** |
ESR | 0.494*** | 0.816*** | 0.561*** | 0.467*** | 0.554*** | 0.295** | 0.271* | 0.176 | 0.250* | 0.247* | |
CRP | 0.512*** | 0.780*** | 0.408*** | 0.923*** | 0.219 | 0.322** | 0.234* | 0.234* | 0.309** | ||
DAS28-ESR | 0.828*** | 0.846*** | 0.695*** | 0.445*** | 0.431*** | 0.394*** | 0.400*** | 0.441*** | |||
DAS28-CRP | 0.856*** | 0.924*** | 0.423*** | 0.484*** | 0.442*** | 0.408*** | 0.501*** | ||||
CDAI | 0.670*** | 0.507*** | 0.462*** | 0.500*** | 0.425*** | 0.509*** | |||||
SDAI | 0.342** | 0.416*** | 0.343** | 0.334** | 0.418*** | ||||||
HAQ | 0.351*** | 0.415*** | 0.257* | 0.403*** | |||||||
Syn | 0.671*** | 0.889*** | 0.964*** | ||||||||
Ten | 0.639*** | 0.832*** | |||||||||
PD syn | 0.870*** |
CDAI: clinical disease activity index; CRP: C-reactive protein; DAS28: disease activity score in 28 joints; ESR: erythrocyte sedimentation rate; HAQ: health assessment questionnaire; PD: power doppler; SDAI: simplified disease activity index; syn: ultrasound synovitis score; ten: ultrasound tenosynovitis score; US7: the 7-joint ultrasound score
p < 0.001,
p < 0.01,
p < 0.05