Table 5.

Correlations between vascular age and clinical and laboratory variables.

	All subjects n = 106		Rheumatoid Arthritis n = 52		Osteoarthritis n = 54
Variable	Spearman's rho coefficient	p-value	Spearman's rho coefficient	p-value	Spearman's rho coefficient	p-value
Age	0.437	0.000	0.392	0.004	0.492	0.000
Number of cups of coffee	−0.212	0.044	−0.166	0.266	−0.214	0.169
LDL-c	0.213	0.029	0.114	0.42	0.299	0.028
Framingham risk score adjusted for Colombia	0.354	0.000	0.233a	0.096	0.457	0.001
MD-HAQ	0.103	0.294	0.276	0.048	−0.023	0.866

LDL-c, Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; MD-HAQ, Multidimensional- health assessment questionaire.

^aThe rho coefficient was the same when adapted by a 1.5 multiplication factor following EULAR recommendations.