Table 1.

Clinical and laboratory characteristics of RA patients and healthy controls

	Rheumatoid arthritis (n = 10)	Healthy control (n = 8)	P value
Age (years)	49.6 ± 11.8	48.4 ± 15.9	0.86
Sex (% female)	80	75	1.0
Ethnicity (% Caucasian)	80	63	0.61
Hypertension (%)	30	0	0.22
Diabetes (%)	10	0	1.0
Current smoking (%)	10	0	1.0
FH of CVD (%)	37.5	12.5	0.57
Statin use (%)	10	12.5	1.0
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)	178 ± 52	165 ± 22	0.52
LDL cholesterol (mg/dL)	104 ± 35	89 ± 22	0.31
HDL cholesterol (mg/dL)	52 ± 15	56 ± 14	0.58
Triglycerides (mg/dL)	116 ± 59	101 ± 84	0.21
ESR (mm/h)	71 ± 24	6 ± 5	0.0006
HS-CRP (mg/L)	42.1 ± 40.1	0.91 ± 1.5	0.0006
HDL inflammatory index (HII)	2.21 ± 0.52	0.56 ± 0.09	0.0092

HDL high density lipoprotein, LDL low density lipoprotein, ESR erythrocyte sedimentation rate, HS-CRP high-sensitivity C-reactive protein