Table 2

The correlation between ß5i./RIG-I mRNA level and skeletal muscle disease

mRNA	Statistical value	Muscle VAS*	Serum CK†	MMT8 score†	Muscle pathological score
mRNA	Statistical value	Muscle VAS*	Serum CK†	MMT8 score†	Total score*	Muscle fibre*	Inflammatory*	Vascular*	Connective tissue*
ß5i.	r_s value	0.601	0.327	−0.561	0.332	0.533	0.230	0.246	0.136
ß5i.	P value	0.014	0.217	0.024	0.209	0.033	0.392	0.358	0.617
RIG-I	r_s value	0.524	0.373	−0.464	0.568	0.731	0.385	−0.041	0.461
RIG-I	P value	0.037	0.154	0.070	0.022	0.001	0.141	0.880	0.072

*Spearman correlation.
†Pearson correlation.
CK, creatine kinase; MMT8, manual muscle test; VAS, Visual Analogue Scale.