Enzymatic antioxidant system in vascular inflammation and coronary artery disease

Table 1 Inflammatory parameters, and serum levels of extracellular superoxide dismutase and free radicals in a group of patients with coronary artery disease and healthy volunteers drawn from the study of Lubrano et al[30]

Number of injured vassels	IL-6 (pg/mL)	TNF-α(pg/mL)	CRP (mg/dL)	Peroxy radicals (UC)	EC-SOD (U/mL)
Controls	1.05 ± 0.2	2.5 ± 1.1	0.15 ± 0.03	197 ± 15.5	2.91 ± 0.4
1	2.7 ± 0.7	1.05 ± 0.3	0.83 ± 0.7	241 ± 30.7	2.9 ± 0.4
2	2.6 ± 1.7	1.34 ± 0.2	1.6 ± 0.1	246 ± 12.5	2.7 ± 0.6
3	3.3 ± 1a	0.98 ± 0.4	1.1 ± 0.7	272 ± 20.2	3.8 ± 0.7
4	3.5 ± 0.6a	3.9 ± 1.5	1.4 ± 1.1	273 ± 30.5	5.1 ± 1.3

^aP < 0.05. TNF-α: Tumor necrosis factor-α; EC-SOD: Extracellular superoxide dismutase; CAD: Coronary artery disease; CRP: C-reactive protein.