Epicardial Fat Thickness as Cardiovascular Risk Factor and Therapeutic Target in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated with Biological and Nonbiological Therapies

Table 1

Anthropometric and clinical variables of the control group, the group of subjects with RA treated with nonbiological DMARDs, and the group of RA subjects treated with biological DMARDs.

Variable	Control group; = 16	RA; nonbiological DMARDs; = 16	RA biological DMARDs; = 18
Age (years)	51.81 ± 9.75	51.31 ± 6.70	52.05 ± 8.26
Weight (Kg)	75.46 ± 22.85	69.86 ± 14.18	70.82 ± 19.96
Height (m)	1.59 ± 0.05	1.56 ± 0.07	1.58 ± 0.05
BMI (Kg/m^2)	29.48 ± 7.35	28.65 ± 7.09	28.20 ± 8.19
WC (cm)	89.84 ± 17.74	91.31 ± 15.89	88.41 ± 27.20
SBP (mmHg)	117.50 ± 11.25	121.00 ± 7.10	122.11 ± 8.82
DBP (mmHg)	75.93 ± 9.86	79.18 ± 5.23	78.72 ± 4.72

Continuous variables are presented as .
BMI: body mass index, WC: waist circumference, SBP: systolic blood pressure, and DBP: diastolic blood pressure.