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

Table 3

Characteristic of patients with JIA according to type of JIA and control group.

	Polyarticular,	Oligoarticular,	Control group,
Age, years	14,9 ± 1,6	13,3 ± 1,8	14,4 ± 1,8	0.0441
Female	10 (71,4%)	13 (81,2%)	15 (75,0%)	0.8427
Weight, kg	50,6 ± 7,1	46,4 ± 9,5	55,5 ± 9,0	0.0109^*; P versus O: 0.0083
Height, cm	163,2 ± 5,5	158,4 ± 10,7	166,0 ± 10,3	0.0665
BMI	19,0 ± 2,3	18,3 ± 2,1	20,1 ± 2,3	0.0699, P versus O: 0.0606
BMI percentile	36,5 ± 27,0	37,9 ± 21,0	52,9 ± 25,6	0.0985
FAT %	19,9 ± 6,3	19,9 ± 5,5	23,0 ± 5,5	0.1745
Total cholesterol, mg/dL	145,6 ± 26,2	156,4 ± 23,7	153,4 ± 26,8	0.5022
Triglycerides, mg/dL	78,4 ± 30,0	99,0 ± 43,8	92,1 ± 37,3	0.3293
LDL cholesterol, mg/dL	77,1 ± 25,9	77,9 ± 22,4	77,6 ± 23,9	0.9961
HDL cholesterol, mg/dL	58,2 ± 14,1	58,7 ± 13,9	57,4 ± 14,9	0.9605
hsCRP, mg/L	0,70 0,40–3,90	0,40 0,25–0,55	0,45 0,30–0,70	0.0962
IL-6, pg/mL	150,5 0,0–239,6	0,0 0–369,6	0 0,0-0,0	0.0327; CG versus P: 0.0067
Homocysteine, µmol/L	8,6 ± 2,5	9,2 ± 3,2	9,2 ± 2,5	0.8209
IMT, mm	0,46 ± 0,03	0,48 ± 0,05	0,47 ± 0,04	0.3418

BMI: body mass index, % FAT: % body fat, LDL: low density lipoprotein, HDL: high density lipoprotein, hsCRP: high sensitivity lipoprotein, IL-6: interleukin 6, IMT: intima media thickness, ^*statistically significant, P: polyarticular, and O: oligoarticular.