Advantages of a combined rheumatoid arthritis magnetic resonance imaging score (RAMRIS) for hand and feet: does the RAMRIS of the hand alone underestimate disease activity and progression?

Table 2 Spearman-correlation between ΔDAS28 and ΔSDAI to changes in other changes scores

Change in score (ΔT1-T0)	Correlations between ΔDAS28 and changes in other scores	95% confidence interval	Correlations between ΔSDAI and changes in other scores	95% confidence interval
CRP	0.170	-0.232–0.523	0.316	-0.082–0.626
ESR	0.217	-0.186–0.558	0.308	-0.09–0.621
sum score hand	0.368	0.022–0.661	0.280	-0.12–0.602
sum score wrist	0.449	0.075–0.713	0.335	-0.061–0.639
sum score foot	0.522	0.168–0.756	0.544	0.199–0.769
RAMRIS*	0.499	0.139–0.743	0.338	-0.057–0.641
HaF–score*	0.820	0.633–0.916	0.662	0.369–0.835

*Significant differences between ΔRAMRIS und ΔHaF-score (p = 0.0368) in correlation to ΔDAS28.

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