Levels of Pathogenic Th17 and Th22 Cells in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Table 1

Characteristics of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and healthy controls included in the study.

	RA patients	Controls
	30	16
Age (years)
Sex (female/male)	28/2	15/1
Time evolution of disease (years)
Disease activity
	17
	13
Treatment
MTX	11
MTX + PDN	11
MTX + PDN + SSZ	8
Rheumatoid factor (+/-)	25/5
ACCP (U/ml)
CH50 (U/ml)

DAS28: Disease Activity Score 28; MTX: methotrexate; PDN: prednisone; SSZ: sulfasalazine; RF: rheumatoid factor; ACCP: anticyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (0.0-20.0); CH50: serum hemolytic complement levels. Data corresponds to the arithmetic . Reference range: 0.0-20.0 U/ml. Reference range: 16.1-31.2 U/ml.