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Table 6 (abstract P185). Associations of BILAG fatigue scores and SF36 vitality scores

From: Proceedings of the 23rd Paediatric Rheumatology European Society Congress: part two

 

Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients

Assessed association

Measure used as comparator

BILAG fatigue

SF36 vitality

Disease activity

Physician global activity VAS score

0.53

-0.5

Patient global VAS score

0.48

-0.72

ESR

0.25

-0.12

Pain

SF36 bodily pain

-0.45

0.69

Physical function

CHAQ

0.45

0.62

Anaemia

Haemoglobin

0.18

-0.21

Mood

Mood disorder, anxiety disorder or organic depressive illness on p-BILAG

0.17

-0.23

  1. VAS visual analogue scale, ESR erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Strong correlations are shown in bold. All correlation co-efficients were statistically significant (P < 0.05)