Table 1 Patient characteristics of HCs, GCA patients, PMR patients and disease control groups in both cohorts
Aarhus cohort | Groningen GPS cohort | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
HC | GCA | Isolated PMR | GCA look-alike | HC | GCA | Isolated PMR | Infection control | ||
n | 19 | 52 | 25 | 18 | 45 | 48 | 39 | 16 | |
Age | Years | 66 | 67 | 68 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 73 |
Sex | % female | 68 | 62 | 52 | 39 | 62 | 69 | 59 | 35 |
Classification criteria | |||||||||
ACR for GCA | % pos | 0 | 85 | 8 | 44 | 0 | 71 | 15 | NA |
Chuang for PMR | % pos | 0 | 19 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 72 | NA |
ACR/EULAR for PMR | % pos | 0 | 8 | 68 | 11 | 0 | 8 | 85 | NA |
Diagnostic tools | |||||||||
TAB GCA | pos/neg/NA | NA | 36/12/4 | 0/23/2 | 0/11/7 | NA | 23/7/18 | 0/7/32 | NA |
PET GCA | pos/neg/NA | NA | 48/4/0 | 0/25/0 | 0/13/5 | NA | 32/5/11 | 0/29/10 | NA |
US GCA | pos/neg/NA | NA | 47/5/0 | 2/23/0 | 1/23/1 | NA | 25/17/6 | 1/9/39 | NA |
Symptoms | |||||||||
New headache | % | NA | 60 | 12 | 50 | NA | 75 | 23 | NA |
Jaw/tongue claudication | % | NA | 21 | 0 | 6 | NA | 42 | 13 | NA |
Abnormal temporal artery | % | NA | 27 | 0 | 22 | NA | 50 | 8 | NA |
Visual symptoms | % | NA | 4 | 0 | 22 | NA | 29 | 0 | NA |
Scalp tenderness | % | NA | 33 | 8 | 28 | NA | 46 | 10 | NA |
Limb claudication | % | NA | 19 | 8 | 0 | NA | 19 | 15 | NA |
Fever | % | NA | 58 | 32 | 33 | NA | 33 | 15 | NA |
Weight loss | % | NA | 85 | 44 | 33 | NA | 63 | 49 | NA |
Night sweats | % | NA | 68a | 36 | 33 | NA | 48 | 38 | NA |
Malaise | % | NA | 92 | 92 | 39 | NA | 75 | 85 | NA |
Overlapping PMR | % | NA | 25 | NA | NA | NA | 23 | NA | NA |
Symptom duration, median | days | NA | 88 | 56 | NA | NA | 47 | 114 | NA |