The study population included all patients for whom an ANA was ordered at UT Southwestern Medical Center January 1, 2010 to June 30, 2017. The titer and pattern of the ANA as well as the results of ENA or anti-dsDNA testing were documented. Patient characteristics included age and sex. ...
Although the 2019 EULAR/ACR classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has required at least a positive anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) titer (≥ 1:80), it remains challenging for clinicians to identify patients with SLE. This study aimed to develop a machine learning (ML) ap...
(ANA)and liver function were analyzed.Results All 20 patients were positive for ANA and showed granular cytoplasm patterns,the levels of titer were from 1 ∶320 to 1 ∶1000;The levels of alkaline phosphatase(ALP)and γ-glutamyltransferase(GGT)were markedly higher than alanine aminofransferase(ALT...
Half of patients had an ANA titer 鈮 1:320. The ANA pattern was speckled in 60% of the patients. Thyroid antibodies were detected in 30% of the patients. Anti-Thyroglobulin (ATG) was detected in 29% and Anti-thyroid peroxidase (ATPO) in 21% of the patients; of these children, 14%...
Craig et al4 found an ANA titer of at least 1:64 in 15%of healthy women younger than 40 years and 24%of women age 40 or older. Tan et al,5 in a study of healthy adults(age 20 to 60 years),found that 31.7%had a posi-tive ANA result at a 1:40 dilution, 13.3%at a 1:80 ...
Forty-nine percent of the ANA tests were positive at a titer of 1:80 or greater; slightly more women (51%) had a positive ANA (鈮 1:80) than did men (43%). Fifty-four and a half percent of the positive ANA in women were 1:320 or greater vs. 41.6% in men (p<0.0001. In ...
An asymptomatic ANA patient was defined as any patient with a positive ANA titer of at least 1:40 who did not have an additional diagnosis of any rheumatological disorders at the time of analysis (i.e., in 2023) included in our data. The study also considered demographic parameters such ...