Table 3.

Patient characteristics of the NPSLE patients with an inflammatory phenotype and the NPSLE patients with an ischemic phenotype

	NPSLE inflammatory (n = 26)	NPSLE ischemic (n = 12)	p value
Female, n (%)	23 (89%)	10 (83%)	0.664
Age, years	39 ± 15	41 ± 11	0.581
Hypertension	11 (42%)	5 (42%)	0.970
Current smoking	3 (12%)	2 (17%)	0.666
BMI	24 ± 5	26 ± 5	0.274
Diabetes	1 (3%)	2 (15%)	0.154
Duration of SLE	4 ± 6	10 ± 10	0.012*
SLEDAI-2K	10 ± 9	4 ± 3	0.030*
SDI	1.0 ± 1.1	1.3 ± 1.0	0.185

Data represents n (percentage) or means ± standard deviations. Gender, age, cardiovascular risk factors, duration of disease, and damage indexes are shown. Differences between the two groups are expressed in p value and calculate for nominal variables with chi-square (gender, hypertension, smoking, and diabetes) and for continuous variables with an unpaired t-test (age and BMI) or Mann-Whitney U test (duration of SLE, SLEDAI-2K, and SDI) based on their distribution

BMI body mass index, SLEDAI-2K Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index 2000, SDI Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics Damage Index

*p < 0.05