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Table 2 The associations between the participant's clinical traits, the number of infiltrating foci in their labial salivary gland, and the CFTR expression level

From: Expression of CFTR, a hallmark gene of ionocytes, is downregulated in salivary glands of Sjögren’s syndrome patients

Variable

r

p

Gender (man/woman)

0.231*

0.039

Age (years)

0.026

0.819

Dry mouth (yes/no)

 − 0.485**

0.0001

Infiltrated foci (n)

 − 0.556**

0.0001

Serology (positive/negative)

 − 0.091

0.439

Dry eyes (yes/no)

 − 0.174

0.159

Dry eye test (positive/negative)

 − 0.217

0.197

  1. *Significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)
  2. **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two-tailed)
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Arthritis Research & Therapy

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