Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation

Table 2 Correlation between serum IL-17 and DAS-28 and HAQ-DI in RA patients, and KOOS pain score in early knee OA patients

From: Is interleukin-17 implicated in early knee osteoarthritis pathogenesis as in rheumatoid arthritis?

	Serum IL-17
	r	P
DAS 28 (RA)
ESR	0.103	0.624
CRP	0.070	0.741
Interpretation	0.119	0.571
HAQ-DI (RA)	0.222	0.286
BLOCKs grading (KOA)	0.159	0.324
WORMs grading (KOA)	0.148	0.252
KOOS (KOA)	0.277	0.009^*

r Spearman coefficient
*Statistically significant at p ≤ 0.05

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