Table 3.

Correlation between changes in hematological indexes and disease activity parameters in rheumatoid arthritis (n = 115).

Change of Disease Activity Parameters	Change of Hematological Indexes
	ΔSII		ΔNHL Score		ΔNLR		ΔPLR
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
ΔDAS28-ESR	0.233	0.012	0.221	0.018	0.199	0.033	0.244	0.009
ΔESR	0.383	0.000	0.312	0.001	0.247	0.008	0.427	0.000
ΔCRP	0.208	0.026	0.139	0.139	0.099	0.293	0.313	0.001
ΔTender joint count	0.007	0.944	0.004	0.970	−0.016	0.861	0.035	0.708
ΔSwollen joint count	0.079	0.402	0.123	0.191	0.084	0.374	0.046	0.629
ΔPatient VAS	0.066	0.484	0.030	0.749	0.037	0.694	0.140	0.137
ΔPhysician VAS	0.201	0.130	0.149	0.266	0.170	0.201	0.272	0.039

p-values were calculated by Pearson correlation analysis. Data were described as correlation coefficients (r). Abbreviations: DAS, disease activity score; ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate; CRP, C-reactive protein level; VAS, visual analogue scale; SII, systemic immune-inflammation index; NHL, neutrophil-to-hemoglobin and lymphocyte ratio; NLR, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio; PLR, platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio.