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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 27.
Published in final edited form as: Rheumatology (Oxford). 2019 Sep 30;59(6):1247–1252. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kez436

Table 1. Associations with inflammatory arthritis development.

All patients
(n=357)
Arthritis
(n=63)
No Arthritis
(n=294)
HR*
(95% CI)
P-value HR
(95% CI)
P-value HR
(95% CI)
P-value

MRI features
Feet (MTP 1-5)
  Tenosynovitis, n (%) 29 (8) 17 (27) 12 (4) 6.64 (3.79; 1.63) <0.001 4.75 (2.38; 9.49) <0.001 3.14 (1.48; 6.64) 0.003
  Synovitis, n (%) 34 (10) 16 (25) 18 (6) 4.46 (2.53; 0.88) <0.001 2.48 (1.18; 5.23) 0.017 2.15 (0.98; 4.68) 0.06
  BMO, n (%) 21 (6) 7 (11) 14 (5) 2.57 (1.17; 5.64) 0.019 0.66 (0.25; 1.69) 0.38 0.67 (0.25; 1.76) 0.41
Hands (MCP 2-5 and wrist)
  Tenosynovitis, n (%) 95 (27) 41 (65) 54 (18) 6.59 (3.92; 11.08) <0.001 6.16 (3.58; 10.62) <0.001 5.36 (3.07; 9.37) <0.001
  Synovitis, n (%) 60 (17) 19 (30) 41 (14) 2.35 (1.37; 4.02) 0.002 1.06 (0.60; 1.87) 0.85 1.12 (0.63; 2.01) 0.69
  BMO, n (%) 57 (16) 18 (29) 39 (13) 2.39 (1.39; 4.14) 0.002 1.94 (1.11; 3.38) 0.019 2.33 (1.31; 4.14) 0.004
Clinical features
  Elevated CRP, n (%) 71 (21) 21 (33) 50 (18) 2.22 (1.31; 3.75) 0.003
  ACPA and/or RF positive, n (%) 69 (21) 30 (48) 39 (14) 4.37 (2.65; 7.19) <0.001

*

HR of univariable analyses.

HR of multivariable analyses including the three inflammatory MRI-features; multivariable analyses were performed for the MTP, MCP and wrist separately.

Multivariable analyses including also CRP, positivity for ACPA and/or RF.