Skin Autofluorescence in Systemic Sclerosis Is Related to the Disease and Vascular Damage: A Cross-Sectional Analytic Study of Comparative Groups

Table 1

Main characteristics of 47 systemic sclerosis patients matched by age and gender to 47 healthy controls.

	Systemic sclerosis patients	Healthy controls
Mean age, years; Median	52.64 (SD 11.20); 52	52.57 (SD 7.69); 52	0.974
Gender, female, nr (%)	41 (87.2%)	41 (87.2%)	1.00
Body mass index, kg/m^2	24.27 (SD 4.63)	26.09 (SD 4.50)	0.06
Total cholesterol, mmol/L	5.80 (1.46)	6.22 (1.13)	0.132
Low density lipoprotein cholesterol, mmol/L	3.6651 (SD 1.33)	4.1088 (SD 0.99)	0.083
High density lipoprotein cholesterol, mmol/L	1.35 (SD 0.38)	1.57 (SD 0.34)	0.006
Triglycerides, mmol/L	1.53 (SD 0.68)	1.15 (SD 0.53)	0.005