Table 4.

Correlations between inflammatory and endothelial markers and traditional risk factors

	CRP	IL-1β	IL-6	IL-10	TNF-α	MIF	E-sel + EMP	vWF
Age	0.081	-0.013	0.157	0.160*	0.005	0.136	0.018	0.240**
SBP	0.324***	0.110	0.203*	0.235*	0.163*	0.303**	0.094	0.154
BMI	0.403***	-0.017	0.047	-0.029	0.049	0.072	0.186*	0.136
TG	0.254**	-0.034	0.034	-0.043	-0.085	-0.263**	0.147	0.180*

*,**,*** indicate significance at p < 0.05, <0.01, <0.001, respectively. BMI: body mass index; CRP: C-reactive protein; EMP: endothelial microparticles; IBD: inflammatory bowel disease; IL-1β: interleukin-1β; IL-6: interleukin-6; IL-10: interleukin-10; MIF: macrophage migration inhibitory factor; RA: rheumatoid arthritis; SBP: systolic blood pressure; TG: triglycerides; TNF-α: tumour necrosis factor-α; vWF: von Willebrand factor. Statistically significant correlations are shown with bold typeface.