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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 6.

Correlation between Systolic Blood Pressure and Plasma MMP and TIMP levels

p r r2
MMP-2 0.35 0.11 0.01
MMP-7 0.04 0.24 0.06
MMP-8 0.23 0.14 0.02
MMP-9 0.09 0.20 0.04
TIMP-1 0.001 0.40 0.16
TIMP-2 0.05 0.23 0.05
TIMP-4 0.20 0.15 0.02

Abbreviations: MMP = Matrix Metalloproteinase, TIMP = Tissue Inhibitor of MMP. Data were analyzed using a Pearson’s coefficient with (p-value), (r), (r2) listed for each variable tested.