CCR5Δ32 variant and cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cohort study

Table 5 Comparison of carotid artery intima-media thickness, flow-mediated endothelium-dependent (postischemia) vasodilatation and endothelium-independent vasodilatation according to a recessive pattern of effect of CCR5Δ32 polymorphism in an analysis of covariance model^a

	P value
*CCR5Δ32*group	IMT	FMD	NTG
Carriers vs. noncarriers	0.77	0.024	0.11

^aFMD: flow-mediated endothelium-dependent vasodilatation; IMT: carotid artery intima-media thickness; NTG: endothelium-independent (postnitroglycerin) vasodilatation. Analyses were adjusted for gender, age at the time of ultrasonography, follow-up time, and presence or absence of rheumatoid shared epitope, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, obesity and smoking habit.

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