Table 4

Items found to be correlated with systemic sclerosis (SSc) disease activity (consensus score) by multiple regression analysis

Items		Whole series (n=152)				dSSc (n=74)				lSSc (n=91)
Items		b^4-151	p			b	p			b	p
TSS^4-150>20	0.70	0.00009
Scleredema	0.36	0.0267					0.53	0.0315
Δ-Skin	1.41	0.000000003		1.06	0.0013		1.35	0.0001
Digital necrosis	0.53	0.0094
Δ-Vasc	0.55	0.0256		0.91	0.0043		0.88	0.0223
Arthritis	0.54	0.0041					0.71	0.0056
Δ-JM^4-150				0.70	0.0224
↓Tlco ^4-150	0.56	0.0013
Δ-HL^4-150	1.54	0.000000002		1.58	0.00002		1.29	0.0012
ESR^4-150 >30 mm/1st h	1.03	0.0000003					1.27	0.00002
Hypocomplementaemia	1.10	0.000005					1.17	0.0048
	0.84			0.77			0.78

↵4-150 TSS = total skin score;Δ-JM = articular/muscular; Tlco = carbon monoxide transfer factor <80% of the predicted value;Δ-HL = cardiopulmonary; ESR = erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
↵4-151 b = regression coefficient.