Item in NIS Criteria |
Number of Positive Results in SS Patients (n=42) |
Number of Positive Results in non-SS Patients (n=34) |
P-value |
I. Ocular symptoms |
30 (71.43%) |
10 (29.41%) |
0.0006 |
II. Oral symptoms |
37 (88.10%) |
13 (38.24%) |
<0.0001 |
III.Ocular signs (a and/or b) |
29 (69.05%) |
11 (32.35%) |
0.0031 |
IV. Oral signs |
17 (40.48%) |
5 (14.71%) |
0.0272 |
V. Autoantibodies (a and/or b) |
39 (83.33%) |
28 (82.35%) |
0.2927 |
VI. Existence of autoimmune thyroid disease |
9 (21.43%) |
0 (0%) |
0.0118 |
LSGB |
29 (69.05%) |
5 (14.71%) |
<0.0001 |