The use of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I in assessing cardiac involvement and Disease prognosis in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy

Table 2 Correlation of serum cardiac biomarkers levels with disease activity in IIM patients

	CK		CK-MB		hs-cTnI		Mb		NT-proBNP
	r	p-values	r	p-values	r	p-values	r	p-values	r	p-values
PhGA	0.311	< 0.001	0.431	< 0.001	0.403	< 0.001	0.466	< 0.001	0.307	< 0.001
PGA	0.203	0.015	0.299	< 0.001	0.296	< 0.001	0.252	0.002	0.227	0.007
HAQ	0.227	0.007	0.283	0.001	0.254	< 0.001	0.270	0.001	0.148	0.079
MMT-8	-0.279	0.001	-0.351	< 0.001	-0.187	0.026	-0.303	< 0.001	-0.058	0.497
MDAAT	0.018	0.830	0.154	0.068	0.342	< 0.001	0.137	0.104	0.305	< 0.001

r: Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. CK: creatine kinase; CK-MB: creatine kinase MB; HAQ: health assessment questionnaire; hs-cTnI: high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I; Mb: myoglobin; MDAAT: myositis disease activity assessment tool; MMT-8: manual muscle testing-8; NT-proBNP: N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide; PGA: patient global activity; PhGA: physician global activity

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