The Clinical Relevance of IL-17-Producing CD4+CD161+ Cell and Its Subpopulations in Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome

Table 3

Correlations of CD4+CD161+ T cell subsets with the laboratory parameters from pSS patients.

Laboratory parameters	CD4+CD25+CD161+ T (%)		CD4+CD25−CD161+ T (%)		CD4+CD161+ T (%)
	r	p value	r	p value	r	p value
WBC	0.0751	0.5822	0.0235	0.8638	−0.0133	0.9227
Hb	0.0185	0.8926	−0.2458	0.0678	−0.1897	0.1614
PLT	−0.1921	0.1560	−0.2562	0.0566	−0.2736	0.0413
Anti-α-Fodrin	0.0944	0.4730	−0.0956	0.4677	−0.0909	0.4899
RF	−0.0378	0.7744	0.1313	0.3172	0.1359	0.3003
Anti-SSA	−0.0227	0.8655	0.1826	0.1701	0.1821	0.1713
Anti-SSB	−0.0336	0.8025	0.2562	0.0523	0.2498	0.0586
C3	−0.0562	0.6696	0.0643	0.6257	0.0872	0.5076
C4	−0.1532	0.2426	−0.1012	0.4419	−0.0679	0.6062
ESR	−0.0971	0.4685	0.3145	0.0162	0.2776	0.0349
CRP	−0.0488	0.7110	0.1824	0.1632	0.1300	0.3222
IgA	−0.1506	0.2509	0.0649	0.6225	0.0908	0.4903
IgG	0.1100	0.4030	0.2139	0.1008	0.2079	0.1109
IgM	−0.0382	0.7720	−0.0326	0.8049	−0.0509	0.6993
γ-globulin	0.0999	0.4478	0.2334	0.0727	0.2204	0.0907

pSS: primary Sjögren’s syndrome; WBC: white blood cell (leucocyte); Hb: hemoglobin; PLT: platelet; RF: rheumatoid factor; Anti-SSA: anti-Ro/SSA antibody; Anti-SSB: anti-La/SSB antibody; C3: complement component C3; C4: complement component C4; ESR: erythrocyte sedimentation rate; CRP: C-reactive protein; IgA: immunoglobulin A; IgG: immunoglobulin G; IgM: immunoglobulin M (IgM). The values in bold represent results with statistical significance.