Research Article
Association of Immunological Cell Profiles with Specific Clinical Phenotypes of Scleroderma Disease
Table 1
Participant distribution by subsets.
| Comparison | Group | Patients |
| Controls | CONT | 49 |
| Patients | PAT | 49 |
| Type of scleroderma | LSc | 6 | dcSSc | 32 | lcSSc | 11 |
| Time since the diagnosis of the disease (years) | 0–3 | 13 | 4–10 | 15 | >11 | 21 |
| Treatment with corticoids (years) | No | 21 | 0–3 | 17 | >3 | 11 |
| Pulmonary fibrosis | No | 26 | Yes | 23 |
| Cardiac affliction | No | 42 | Yes | 7 |
| Pulmonary hypertension | No | 31 | Yes | 18 |
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