Vascular Inflammation Is a Risk Factor Associated with Brain Atrophy and Disease Severity in Parkinson’s Disease: A Case-Control Study

Table 2

Cell adhesion molecule and microRNA profile level of PD patients and controls.

Parameters	PD patients ()	Controls ()
Cell adhesion molecule parameters
VCAM-1 (ng/mL)			0.025
ICAM-1 (ng/mL)			0.898
miRNA fold change (FC)	PD vs. control
miRNA-22	1.99		0.004
miRNA-29a	1.70		0.003

VCAM-1: vascular cell adhesion molecule-1; ICAM-1: intracellular cell adhesion molecule-1; miRNA: microribonucleic acid. Data are presented as . indicates a value of less than 0.05.