Identification of Long Noncoding RNAs lnc-DC in Plasma as a New Biomarker for Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome

Table 2

The results of clinical characteristics in HC, pSS, SLE, and RA patients.

Characteristic	HC	pSS patients	SLE patients	RA patients
Age					4.028	0.008
Ro (anti-SSA)			#	#&	1915.468	<0.01
La (anti-SSB)			#	#&	607.159	<0.01
ESR (mm/hr)			#	#&	437.691	<0.01
RF (IU/mL)				#&	69.471	<0.01
Immunoglobulin G (g/L)			#	#&	40.896	<0.001
Immunoglobulin A (g/L)			#	#	9.111	<0.001
Immunoglobulin E (IU/mL)					0.459	0.711
Immunoglobulin M (g/L)			#	#	70.399	<0.01
CRP (mg/L)				&	22.198	<0.01
Complement 3 (g/L)			#		4.956	0.002
Complement 4 (g/L)				&	8.392	<0.001
β2-microglobulin (mg/L)				#&	57.675	<0.01

ESR: erythrocyte sedimentation rate; RF: rheumatoid factor; CRP: C-reactive protein; was considered statistically significant. One-way ANOVA was used for intergroup comparison, and lSD-T test was used for pairwise comparison as a whole. vs. healthy controls # vs. pSS patients & vs. SLE patients .