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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 4.

Gender dependent changes in plasma MMP and TIMP profiles

Men Women All p-value
Age (yrs) 52 ± 3 48 ± 2 49 ± 2 0.361
MMP-2 1352 ± 58 1300 ± 49 1319 ± 37 0.512
MMP-7 2.3 ± 0.4 1.9 ± 0.2 2.0 ± 0.2 0.814
MMP-8 4.8 ± 2.2 3.3 ± 0.9 3.8 ± 1.0 0.128
MMP-9 16.5 ± 6.3 19.4 ± 3.8 18.3 ± 3.3 0.948
TIMP-1 1058 ± 54 867 ± 37 934 ± 29 0.001
TIMP-2 43 ± 6 43 ± 5 43 ± 4 0.895
TIMP-4 1.8 ± 0.2 1.6 ± 0.1 1.7 ± 0.1 0.903

Abbreviations: MMP = Matrix Metalloproteinase, TIMP = Tissue Inhibitor of MMP, all MMP/TIMP values are in ng/ml units, Data are mean ± SEM. The differences in the mean values for men vs women were compared using a Student’s T test.