Table 1 Demographic and disease-related characteristics of patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome and demographic data of healthy controls
PSS (n = 45) | Control group (n = 54) | p value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age (years) | 47.67 ± 10.62 | 45 (29–71) | 50.22 ± 8.67 | 52.50 (32–72) | 0.149 |
Gender (female/male) | 43 F (95.6%)/2 M (4.4%) | 52 F (%96)/2 M (4%) | 0.853 | ||
BMI (kg/m2) | |||||
RLS | 12 (26.7%) 33 (73.3%) | 5 (%9) 49 (%91) | 0.022 | ||
RLS severity | 1 patient mild RLS 6 patient moderate RLS 4 patient severe RLS 1 patient very severe RLS | 1 patient mild RLS 3 patient moderate RLS 1 patient severe RLS | 0.037 | ||
FMS | 13 kişi FMS + 28.9% 32 kişi FMS-71.1% | 5 kişi FMS + 9.3% 49 kişi FMS-90.7% | 0.012 | ||
ISI | 9.64 ± 6.06 | 8 (1–23) | 6.44 ± 4.30 | 6 (1–23) | 0.007 |
BDI | 10.44 ± 8.15 | 9 (1–36) | 7.61 ± 5.16 | 6 (0–23) | 0.047 |
BAI | 10.22 ± 7.84 | 10 (0–36) | 7.28 ± 5.01 | 5 (0–24) | 0.033 |
Lower extremity VAS | 4 (0–8) | 0 (0–8) | 0.001 | ||
PDQ | 7.71 ± 6.94 | 6 (0–23) | 5.04 ± 4.17 | 5 (0–20) | 0.099 |
Pain threshold right | 9.29 ± 3.50 | 9 (3–18) | 8.92 ± 3.57 | 9 (3–17) | 0,816 |
Pain threshold left | 9.06 ± 3.75 | 9 (2–19) | 9.50 ± 3.19 | 10 (3–15) | 0,370 |
Number of painful body sizes | 4.04 ± 2.61 | 4 (0–9) | 2 ± 1.94 | 1 (0–7) | < 0.001 |
ESSDAI | 3.91 ± 1.85 | 4 (0–9) | |||
ESSPRI | |||||
Mean | 6.57 ± 1.79 | 7 (1.5–9) | |||
Dryness | 6.22 ± 2.41 | 7 (0–9) | |||
Fatigue | 6.96 ± 2.12 | 8 (1–9) | |||
Pain | 6.36 ± 2.06 | 7 (1–9) | |||
Disease duration | 3.49 ± 1.44 | 4 (1–6) | |||