Table 1.

Patient characteristics of LV-GCA and atherosclerosis groups.

	LV-GCA	Atherosclerosis
No. of patients	9	22
Age (years): mean (SD)	67.4 (8.8)	67.6 (7.0)
Gender, no. female (%)	6 (66.7)	14 (63.6)
No. of subjects on treatment with glucocorticoids/immunosuppression	0	0
No. of subjects with C-GCA in the medical history	4 suspected, 1 TAB proven (5–11 years before aortic surgery)	0
ESR (mm/h): median (IQR)*	12.5 (3.5–27.3)	15 (4–20)
CRP (mg/L): median (IQR)#	9 (5–11)	5 (5–11)
Total length of studied aortic tissue (mm): median (IQR)	64.7 (43.8–74)	54.1 (46.1–63.4)

Reported data is from the time of aorta surgery.

^*ESR; n = 6 for LV-GCA and n = 19 for atherosclerosis.

^#CRP; n = 7 for LV-GCA and n = 19 for atherosclerosis. There was no significant difference between the groups regarding age, gender, ESR, CRP, and the total length of studied aortic tissue.