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Table 1 Common risk factors of rheumatoid arthritis and atherosclerosis

From: CD154: the atherosclerotic risk factor in rheumatoid arthritis?

 

Rheumatoid arthritis

Atherosclerosis

Smoking

✓

✓

Diabetes mellitus

✓

✓

Lipokine levels

✓

✓

Rheumatoid factor

✓

 

Anti-citrullinated protein antibodies

✓

 

Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptides

✓

✓

Anti-RA33

✓

 

Anti-collagen II

✓

 

Anti-heat shock protein 65

✓

✓

Anti-oxidized low-density lipoprotein

 

✓

Anti-β2-glycoprotein I

 

✓

C-reactive protein

✓

✓

TNFα

✓

✓

IL-1, IL-6

✓

✓

IFNγ

✓

✓

Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1

✓

✓