Comparison of laser Doppler imaging, fingertip lacticemy test, and nailfold capillaroscopy for assessment of digital microcirculation in systemic sclerosis

Table 3 Nailfold capillaroscopy parameters in systemic sclerosis patients and healthy controls

	Nailfold capillaroscopy parameter
	Number of capillary loops/mm	Number of enlarged capillary loops	Number of giant capillary loops	Vascular deletion score
Healthy controls	10.1 ± 0.6	0.1 ± 0.2	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0
SSc patients	6.7 ± 1.9	4.5 ± 2.7	0.3 ± 0.6	1.5 ± 0.9
P value^a	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001

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