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Baseline demographics, clinical features, laboratory findings, and M-CIMT of the 2 groups are presented in Table I. The median serum ACE levels in psoriatic patients were higher than in healthy controls (P\. 05). In addition, psoriatic patients had significantly greater M-CIMT than healthy subjects (Table I). Serum ACE level was positively correlated with M-CIMT (Table II). Correlation between M-CIMT and all other variables are shown in Table II. Twenty-seven patients (44.3%) and none of the healthy control subjects had subclinical atherosclerosis. Eight (13.11%) patients had psoriatic arthritis. In this group, serum ACE level (45.11 6 19.01) and M-CIMT (0.4-1.1 mm) were higher than psoriatic patients without psoriatic arthritis, but it was not significant (Supplemental Table I, available online at www. jaad. org). Some studies have shown that the mean serum ACE activity is significantly increased in patients with …