Salivary Antioxidant Profile in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis and Periodontitis

Table 5

Correlation between clinical rheumatological variables and level of salivary antioxidants in the SSc group.

		GPX	SOD	UA
Disease duration		0.061	-0.237	0.368
		0.810	0.345	0.133
Modified Rodnan’s skin score		-0.203	0.607	-0.105
		0.419		0.679
Disease activity score		-0.607	0.324	-0.178
			0.189	0.481

GPX: glutathione peroxidase; SOD: superoxide dismutase; UA: uric acid. Statistical significance R—Pearson’s correlation coefficient.