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Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation

Table 5 Logistic regression for predicting variables for both articular and peri-articular subclinical US shoulder joint changes in RA patients

From: Predictors of subclinical shoulder joint affection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis by ultrasonography

Variables

P(sig)

Lower limit of 95%CI

Odds ratio

Upper limit of 95%CI

Articular

 RF positive

0.006*

3.6

84.58

1994

 Duration

0.018*

1.1

1.9

3.1

 DAS28 mild

 DAS28 moderate

 DAS28 severe

 

0.038*

1.16

14.5

181

0.000*

9.8

144

2113

Peri-Articular

 Duration (years)

0.004*

1.4

4

10

 Comorbidity

0.07

0.85

7.8

72

 Age

0.0001*

1.1

1.3

1.5

  1. CI confidence interval subclinical shoulder affection, RF rheumatoid factor, DAS28 28-joint count disease activity score
  2. *Added values are significant at p < 0.05
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