Table 2. Correlation between hs-cTn-I and clinical variables in patients with RA and controls.

	RA Patients (n = 164)		Controls (n = 90)
Variable	rho	P*	rho	P*
Age	0.359	<0.001	0.172	0.104
Body mass index	−0.142	0.069	0.026	0.806
Systolic blood pressure	0.248	0.001	0.297	0.005
Coronary calcium score	0.330	<0.001	0.298	0.005
HDL cholesterol	0.066	0.402	−0.056	0.605
LDL cholesterol	0.174	0.027	0.154	0.15
Homocysteine	0.166	0.035	0.088	0.409
Creatinine	0.145	0.064	0.306	0.003
TNFa	0.148	0.061	−0.106	0.321
IL-6	0.093	0.243	−0.144	0.188
C-reactive protein	−0.086	0.275	0.166	0.119
NT-proBNP	0.255	0.001	0.062	0.567
Disease Duration	0.197	0.012	N/A	N/A
DAS28	0.037	0.638	N/A	N/A
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate	−0.014	0.863	N/A	N/A

^*P values by Spearman’s correlation coefficient test.