Cox-proportional hazard analyses of exposure to glucocorticoids at baseline and incident CV disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

*<p>p<0.05. Results presented as hazard ratios (95%-confidence interval).</p>¶<p>Correction for age, gender, and 10-year estimated CV risk according to SCORE.</p>§<p>Correction for age, gender, SCORE, Disease activity score in 28 joints (DAS-28), and the Health Assessment Questionnaire – Disability Index (HAQ-DI).</p

Patient characteristics.

<p>Patient characteristics.</p

Scatter plots for observer agreement for whole-segment (Figure A.) and Hot-spot (Figure B) method.

<p>Scatter plots for observer agreement for whole-segment (Figure A.) and Hot-spot (Figure B) method.</p

Summary of main findings.

<p>Summary of main findings.</p

Box plots of blood pool activity expressed as SUVmean in the ascending aorta and inferior and superior vena cava after 38, 60 and 90 minutes of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake.

<p>(SUVmean = mean standardized uptake value, CoV = coefficient of variation).</p

Intraclass correlation coefficients.

<p>Intraclass correlation coefficients.</p

Clustered error plots of TBRmax and SUVmax at all three uptake times in the vascular segments of the aorta.

<p>Clustered error plots of TBRmax and SUVmax at all three uptake times in the vascular segments of the aorta.</p