Subclinical pleuro-pulmonary disease in patients with SLE: functional and radiological methods

The Egyptian Journal of Bronchology

Table 7 SLE disease severity in correlation with radiological finding by HRCT and US

	SLEDA			SLEDA score			SLICC damage index
HRCT	Coeff	SE	p	Coeff	SE	p	Coeff	SE	p
Ground glass opacity	− 5.21	0.52	0.001	− 0.36	0.09	0.001	− 0.41	0.06	0.001
Honey comb opacity	− 17.89	1.09	0.001	− 0.84	0.16	0.001	− 1.71	0.11	0.001
Interlobular septal thickening				− 0.31	0.10	0.001	− 0.40	0.10	0.001
Mosaic sign	2.00	0.69	0.001				0.30	0.10	0.001
Pleural thickening	− 3.35	0.52	0.001	− 0.42	0.08	0.001	− 0.60	0.05	0.001
Pleural effusion	− 2.89	0.62	0.001	− 0.64	0.09	0.001	− 0.31	0.06	0.001
US
DE	− 16.56	0.74	0.001	− 1.10	0.12	0.001	− 1.68	0.07	0.001
Pleural nodules	− 7.52	0.33	0.001	− 1.09	0.06	0.001	− 1.01	0.03	0.001
Pleural thickness	− 3.16	0.30	0.001	− 0.29	0.05	0.001	− 0.65	0.03	0.001
Comet-tail artifacts B-pattern	− 9.83	0.34	0.001	− 0.81	0.06	0.001	− 0.90	0.03	0.001

Coeff. Coefficient, SE Standard error, the sign before coeff., reflecting the direction of relationship
The test of significant: general linear model