In univariate analysis, after adjusting to age and gender, Table 4 shows that patients with a higher duration of disease were more likely to have atherosclerosis (OR = 1.07, 95%CI = 1.02–1.13) logarithmic transformation of hs-CRP and IL-17A were found to be positively associated with atherosclerosis. Here, IL17A is linked to atherosclerosis.