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Table 3.

Spearman’s correlation matrix of associations between symptom duration, histopathological and laboratory parameters of GCA patients.

Histopathological parameter	GCA symptom duration	ESR	CRP	Platelets	Hemoglobin	Fibrinogen
	[days]	[mm/h]	[mg/ml]	[10⁹/l]	[mg/ml]	[mg/ml]
CD3⁺ [cells/mm²]	0.144	–0.050	0.195	0.048	0.164	–0.011
CD4⁺ [cells/mm²]	0.186	–0.036	0.204	0.044	0.176	–0.007
CD8⁺ [cells/mm²]	0.068	0.040	0.239	0.113	0.088	0.130
CD4⁺:CD8⁺ ratio	–0.046	0.076	–0.263	–0.003	0.025	–0.132
NFATC⁺ [cells/mm²]	0.161	0.027	0.213	0.085	0.184	0.041
NFATC⁺:CD4⁺ ratio	–0.079	0.190	0.209	0.188	0.106	0.280
CD20⁺ [cells/mm²]	0.100	–0.143	0.084	0.032	0.191	0.078
CD68⁺ [score]	0.091	0.024	0.248	0.128	0.038	0.220
MGCs [score]	0.074	0.062	0.313*	0.134	0.090	0.113
Eosinophils [score]	–0.110	0.108	0.344*	0.130	0.177	0.091

ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate; CRP, C-reactive protein; MGC, multinucleated giant cell. Spearman’s correlation coefficients (ρ) between evaluated parameters of 46 GCA patients, including 30 TAB-positive and 16 TAB-negative GCA patients. A p-value of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant (*p < 0.05) (marked in bold).