Table 2.

Correlations between baseline clinical measures of gout severity, SF-36 subscales, and the HAQ-DI^†.

Subscale	Presence of Tophi	No. of Swollen Joints	No. of Painful Joints	No. of Flares, Past year	Serum Uric Acid Level	Disease Duration
Subscale	Correlation	Correlation	Correlation	Correlation	Correlation	Correlation
Bodily pain	0.190^*	−0.348^***	−0.624^***	−0.547^***	−0.027	−0.009
General health	0.402^***	−0.192	−0.393^**	−0.302^**	−0.116	−0.023
Mental health	0.118	−0.188	−0.457^***	−0.296^**	0.019	0.140
Physical functioning	0.163	−0.286^**	0.483^***	−0.239^*	−0.060	0.005
Role-emotional	0.084	−0.160	−0.413^***	−0.353^***	0.073	0.015
Role-physical	0.202^*	−0.325^**	−0.562^***	−0.444^***	−0.027	0.003
Social functioning	0.196^*	−0.304^**	−0.591^***	−0.379^***	0.078	0.015
Vitality	0.191^*	−0.197	−0.480^***	−0.295^**	−0.132	0.141
PCS	0.277^**	−0.334^**	−0.544^***	−0.369^**	−0.105	−0.015
MCS	0.077	−0.139	−0.436^***	−0.321^**	−0.001	0.087
HAQ-DI	−0.178	0.443^***	0.650^**	0.278	0.125	−0.014

↵† SF-36 subscale score range 0–100, higher score = better functioning. HAQ-DI score range: 0–3, higher score = worse functioning. * p ≤0.05,** p < 0.01, *** p ≤0.001. PCS: physical component summary score; MCS: mental component summary score.