Residual Salivary Secretion Ability May Be a Useful Marker for Differential Diagnosis in Autoimmune Diseases

Table 1

Differences between resting and capsaicin-stimulated colored spots’ number in 3 groups.

	Number of colored spots on the filter paper	Number of colored spots on the filter paper containing capsaicin
SjS group; ( = 26)	3.9 ± 0.2	3.4 ± 0.7	< 0.001
SSc group; ( = 12)	4.0 ± 0.1	3.5 ± 0.7	< 0.05
Non-SjS/non-SSc group; ( = 20)	3.6 ± 0.4	2.7 ± 1.2	< 0.01

Mean ± SD.