Table 3.

Clinical characteristics of qRT-PCR subjects

	Controls (n = 15)	UA (n = 15)	AIS (n = 15)	P value
Male (n)	10	11	9	0.838
Age (years)	56.87 ± 6.70	57.53 ± 6.33	53.07 ± 5.87	0.182
BMI (kg/m2)	21.80 ± 2.20	23.85 ± 1.81	22.53 ± 2.78	0.092
BSS Grades	0	68.60 ± 8.72	67.93 ± 9.88	0.000
Hypertension (n)	0	11	14	0.000
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (n)	0	6	3	0.018
Total cholesterol (mmol/L)	3.71 ± 0.76	4.28 ± 0.89	4.60 ± 0.87	0.072
LDL cholesterol (mmol/L)	2.37 ± 0.54	2.66 ± 0.63	2.92 ± 0.64	0.056
HDL cholesterol (mmol/L)	1.37 ± 0.29	1.31 ± 0.31	1.14 ± 0.19	0.112
Triglycerides (mmol/L)	1.03 ± 0.28	2.46 ± 1.03	1.82 ± 1.09	0.000
CRP (mg/L)	3.97 ± 1.86	4.84 ± 2.10	4.57 ± 2.34	0.682