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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Card Fail. 2007 Sep;13(7):530–540. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2007.04.010

Table 3.

Correlation between age, volume/mass (mL/gram), and Mitral E/A ratio with plasma MMP & TIMP levels

Age
(quintile)		 Age
(continuous)		 LV volume/mass
(mL/gram)		 Mitral E/A
(ratio)
MMP-2 0.35 (<0.01) 0.14 (<0.01) −0.10 (0.34) −0.30 (<0.01)
MMP-7 0.58 (<0.01) 0.30 (<0.01) −0.38 (<0.01) −0.53 (<0.01)
MMP-8 −0.07 (0.55) 0.001 (0.9) 0.03 (0.83) 0.08 (0.51)
MMP-9 −0.34 (<0.01) 0.04 (0.07) 0.19 (0.10) 0.24 (0.04)
TIMP-1 0.43 (<0.01) 0.23 (<0.01) −0.32 (<0.01) −0.42 (<0.01)
TIMP-2 0.32 (<0.01) 0.22 (<0.01) −0.03 (0.78) −0.22 (0.06)
TIMP-4 0.49 (<0.01) 0.32 (<0.01) −0.21 (0.07) −0.44 (<0.01)

Abbreviations: LV = Left Ventricular, MMP = Matrix Metalloproteinase, TIMP = Tissue Inhibitor of MMP, all MMP/TIMP values are in ng/ml units. Data were analyzed using a Spearman’s correlation coefficient (ρ) except for “age (continuous)” which was analyzed using a Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r), p value for each correlation coefficient is in parenthesis.