TST in patients with SSc was thicker than in healthy controls (P < 0.001), and correlated positively with total mRSS and the EUSTAR-DAI and correlated negatively with disease duration (P < 0.05).
Here we show that e-GST is hyper-expressed in SSc patients (n = 102) and correlates (R(2) = 0.49, P < 0.0001) with the Medsger DSS and DAI Valentini indices that quantify the severity and activity of this disease.