Table 1.
Study subject demographics by disease
| Disease type | Number of patients | Mean age ± SD (median) | Female N (%) |
Caucasian N (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Behçet’s disease | 17 | 45 ± 13 (41) | 15 (88%) | 15 (94%) |
| Central nervous system vasculitis | 15 | 53 ± 11 (55) | 12 (80%) | 13 (87%) |
| Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis | 15 | 63 ± 14 (67) | 13 (87%) | 14 (93%) |
| Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis | 58 | 59 ± 12 (60) | 40 (69%) | 54 (93%) |
| Giant cell arteritis | 26 | 70 ± 9 (73) | 20 (77%) | 24 (92%) |
| Granulomatosis with polyangiitis | 169 | 56 ± 15 (59) | 110 (65%) | 164 (98%) |
| IgA-vasculitis | 18 | 49 ± 19 (53) | 12 (67%) | 17 (94%) |
| Microscopic polyangiitis | 53 | 57 ± 14 (61) | 43 (81%) | 52 (98%) |
| Polyarteritis nodosa | 21 | 47 ± 20 (50) | 11 (52%) | 19 (90%) |
| Takayasu’s arteritis | 21 | 43 ± 18 (38) | 20 (95%) | 19 (90%) |
| Urticarial vasculitis | 15 | 57 ± 12 (60) | 12 (80%) | 15 (100%) |
| Other | 28 | 54 ± 14 (58) | 22 (79%) | 26 (93%) |
| Total for all types of vasculitis | 456 | 56 ± 15 (59) | 330 (72%) | 432 (95%) |