Clinical Study

Use of Clinical Disease Activity Index Score for Assessment of Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: An Indian Experience

Table 5

Showing comparison of values between DAS-28 and CADI Score.

Comparison groupsMean DAS-28 ± SDMean CDAI-ACR ± SDSpearman’s coefficient ( 𝑟 ) 𝑃 value

I versus I 1 . 9 9 ± 0 . 3 8 0 . 9 0 ± 0 . 6 5 0.9750.0001
II versus II 3 . 0 4 ± 0 . 1 7 6 . 4 5 ± 2 . 3 5 0.9080.0001
III versus III 4 . 2 5 ± 0 . 5 8 1 6 . 4 6 ± 3 . 3 1 0.997<0.0001
IV versus IV 6 . 3 8 ± 0 . 8 7 3 8 . 5 6 ± 1 1 . 8 8 0.999<0.0001

Total 5 . 5 ± 1 . 4 9 2 5 ± 1 6 . 3 5 0.980<0.0001

Kappa value of above comparison = 0.533 (moderate-to-good correlation:  𝑃 < 0 . 0 0 0 1 ).