Assessment of the Body Composition and Parameters of the Cardiovascular Risk in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Table 1

Characteristics of patients with JIA and control group.

	JIA group,	Control group,
Age, years	14,0 ± 1,8	14,4 ± 1,8	0.4301
Female	23 (76,7%)	15 (75,0%)	1.0000
Weight, kg	48,4 ± 8,6	55,5 ± 9,0	0.0066^*
Height, cm	160,7 ± 8,8	166,0 ± 10,3	0.0592
BMI	18,6 ± 2,2	20,1 ± 2,3	0.0302^*
BMI percentile	37,2 ± 23,6	52,9 ± 25,6	0.0308^*
FAT %	19,9 ± 5,8	23,0 ± 5,5	0.0603
Total cholesterol, mg/dL	151,4 ± 25,1	153,4 ± 26,8	0.7928
Triglycerides, mg/dL	89,4 ± 38,8	92,1 ± 37,3	0.8113
LDL cholesterol, mg/dL	77,6 ± 23,6	77,6 ± 23,9	0.9996
HDL cholesterol, mg/dL	58,5 ± 13,7	57,4 ± 14,9	0.7866
hsCRP, mg/L	0,40 0,30–1,60	0,45 0,30–0,70	0.7342
IL-6, pg/mL	56,0 0,0–272,2	0,0 0,0-0,0	0.0137^*
Homocysteine, µmol/L	8,9 ± 2,9	9,2 ± 2,5	0.7327
IMT, mm	0,47 ± 0,04	0,47 ± 0,04	0.9665

BMI: body mass index, % FAT: % body fat, LDL: low density lipoprotein, HDL: high density lipoprotein, hsCRP: high senstivity C-reactive protein, IL-6: interleukin 6, IMT: intima media thickness, and ^*statistically significant.