Biological Anti-TNF-α Therapy and Markers of Oxidative and Carbonyl Stress in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Table 1

Patient characteristics. Median (interquartile range) is reported for the quantitative variables. BMI: body mass index; CRP: C-reactive protein; ESR: erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

	All	Men	Women
Number ()	26	9	17
Age (years)	58.5 (46-65.5)	59 (44-69)	58 (55-64)
BMI (kg/m^2)	24.9 (22.2-26.6)	25.6 (24.2-26.6)	24.1 (22.0-26.2)
Methotrexate ()	19/26	7/9	12/17
Corticoids ()	14/26	5/9	9/17
All patients	Baseline	After 3 months	After 6 months
DAS28 [1]	6.4 (6.1-6.7)	3.0 (2.1-3.6)	2.7 (2.3-3.4)
()	1/26	15/26	16/26
CRP (mg/l)	18.1 (11.6-30.9)	13.0 (7.7-30.3)	7.7 (6.1-22.9)
ESR (mm/1^st hour)	48 (30-59)	—	20 (13.3-33.5)