Anterior and Posterior Ocular Changes in Patients with Active and Inactive Ankylosing Spondylitis

09 January 2025 : Clinical Research

Yücel Karakurt

^{ABDE 1*}, Nurdagül Aktaş

^{BDF 2}, Ahmet Mehmet Somuncu

^{BC 3}, Adem Uğurlu

^{BCD 4}, İbrahim Çiçek

^{BCEF 5}

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.946834

Med Sci Monit 2025; 31:e946834

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Table 4 Correlation analyses.

	CRP		ESR		Disease duration		HLA B27 (+)
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
ECD	−0.080	0.487	−0.227	0.451			−0.017	0.880
HEX	−0.132	0.250	−0.045	0.694			0.143	0.211
CV	0.188	0.100	0.290	0.101			0.001	0.992
AVG	0.197	0.084	0.162	0.155			−0.002	0.984
CCT			−0.077	0.505			−0.015	0.897
Corneal volume	−0.075	0.16	−0.043	0.611			−0.017	0.865
TBUT	−0.010	0.933	0.264	0.020	−0.14	0.23	0.021	0.852
Schirmer	−0.136	0.236	0.081	0.480	−0.07	0.54	0.013	0.907
Corneal fluorescent staining	0.122	0.286	−0.217	0.056	−0.03	0.80	−0.083	0.468
OSDI scores	−0.096	0.401	−0.163	0.154	0.18	0.11	0.086	0.454
Subfoveal choroid thickness	0.117	0.098	0.024	0.112	0.178	0.24	0.087	0.189
1000 N	0.078	0.212	0.072	0.143	0.087	0.112	0.086	0.154
2000 N	0.076	0.237	0.068	0.128	0.098	0.146	0.067	0.148
1000 T	0.088	0.178	0.058	0.168	0.068	0.126	0.112	0.123
2000 T	0.064	0.096	0.072	0.124	0.112	0.098	0.98	0.118
ECD – endothelial cell density; HEX – percentage of hexagonal cells of corneal endothelial cells; CV – coefficient of variation; AVG – average cell size; CCT – central corneal thickness; TBUT – tear break-up time; OSDI – Ocular Surface Disease Index; 1000 N – choroidal thickness on 1000 micron nasal of fovea; 2000 N – on 2000 micron nasal of fovea; 1000 T – on 1000 micron temporal of fovea; 2000 T – on 2000 micron temporal of fovea.

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