Table 1.

Means and standard deviations (SD) with separate comparisons of middle and high hsCRP groups with the low hsCRP group on age, anthropometrics, blood pressure, pulse pressure, clinical laboratory assays, and inflammatory markers.

	hsCRP groups (n = 39 per group)
	Low (≤3 mg/L)		Mid (>3–20 mg/L)			High (>20 mg/L)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p	Mean	SD	p
Age (y)	49.77	8.81	49.77	8.81	1.00	49.77	8.81	1.00
hsCRP1	−0.46	1.02	1.87	0.51	0.00**	3.40	0.43	0.00**
8-oxodG	0.16	0.04	0.17	0.04	0.13	0.18	0.04	0.00**
BMI	26.80	5.13	34.74	9.00	0.00**	39.63	11.94	0.00**
Weight2	71.72	14.64	93.23	23.74	0.00**	103.03	32.95	0.00**
Waist size3	92.39	13.48	106.88	17.43	0.00**	114.97	23.44	0.00**
Hip size3	102.68	13.29	115.79	17.64	0.00**	124.35	20.96	0.00**
Waist hip ratio	0.90	0.08	0.92	0.07	0.21	0.92	0.08	0.44
Diastolic BP4	71.49	11.68	75.08	11.28	0.14	69.89	8.81	0.95
Systolic BP4	118.59	18.24	126.42	18.49	0.05	125.49	20.40	0.08
Pulse pressure	47.11	12.95	51.34	14.35	0.13	55.60	15.81	0.02*
Total cholesterol5	187.18	34.86	196.05	43.38	0.33	182.21	45.90	0.64
LDL5	104.07	34.74	115.51	37.43	0.17	108.89	43.83	0.53
HDL5	60.26	16.09	52.54	13.97	0.02*	47.74	13.32	0.00**
Triglycerides5	114.21	81.17	139.95	74.63	0.08	127.82	61.26	0.34
Creatinine5	0.96	0.87	0.87	0.19	0.39	0.84	0.22	0.33
Glucose5	94.18	10.14	100.87	17.19	0.40	150.59	80.97	0.00**
Insulin6	10.33	6.87	12.31	8.75	0.35	17.23	12.69	0.01*
LDH7	160.40	32.25	178.15	36.33	0.05	163.08	34.79	0.68
eGFR	86.3	18.53	85.9	21.54	0.97	90.9	25.37	0.26
IL-18	5.82	19.47	1.22	2.46	0.26	2.90	6.77	0.34
IL-68	8.47	11.89	5.94	4.29	0.27	15.78	15.18	0.03*
IL-88	17.06	11.41	8.81	7.87	0.00**	18.38	12.27	0.75
IL-108	3.02	4.38	0.74	0.37	0.01**	2.19	1.12	0.52
IL-12p708	1.54	3.12	0.62	0.75	0.04*	0.74	0.98	0.07
IL-188	146.13	63.40	221.25	139.07	0.00**	171.45	115.41	0.32
IL-238	1636.76	7936.71	594.73	1077.08	0.39	776.51	2925.65	0.56
RAGE8	1014.30	502.16	374.73	468.00	0.00**	1100.76	575.73	0.57
ICAM-18	371586.96	133792.62	532839.13	183161.02	0.00**	479242.83	189260.41	0.01
VCAM-18	1680988.53	1325971.49	1188016.04	665613.58	0.07	1290350.88	459042.68	0.11
MCP-18	919.65	461.14	700.59	558.92	0.11	979.58	737.66	0.67
TNFα8	39.29	122.24	5.98	15.34	0.20	22.55	55.16	0.49

¹log₁₀(hsCRP) in mg/L

²kg

³cm

⁴mm Hg

⁵mg/dL

⁶μIU/mL

⁷U/L

⁸pg/ml

^*p<.05;

^**p<.01