CRP and systemic sclerosis: SSc subtype (early or long lasting diffuse or limited subtypes) correlation analyses did not indicate any correlation with disease parameters such as erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR; values), C-reactive protein (CRP; negative/positive), creatinine kinase (CK; normal or altered), digital ulcers (DU; presence/absence), ACA (presence/absence) or ATA (presence/absence) (see Table S1), although this may be due to the low sample size of each single subtype.