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Frequency of Carotid Plaque with Age in RA patients and controls.
| age (years) | controls | RA patients | p value |
| < 50 | 0/8 (0%) | 2/13 (15%) | ns |
| 50–59 | 6/26 (23%) | 10/19 (53%) | 0.042 |
| > 60 | 8/14 (57%) | 7/14 (50%) | ns |
| all subjects | 14/48 (29%) | 19/46 (41%) | ns |
Values are shown as the number of affected individuals with percentage of the total. Fisher's Exact Probability test was used to calculate significance between groups.
ns = not significant.
