Table 1. Physical characteristics of healthy individual (control) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients included in the study.

	Control	RA patients
Age	40.02±11.00	43.11±10.86
Height (cm)	160.93±4.57	163.68±7.31
Weight (pounds)	130.55±12.98	133.29±13.30
BMI	23.22±1.37	23.14±1.66
ESR (mm/hr)	13.47±5.45	35.38±10.07*

The values represents the mean ± S.D.

* p < 0.05