Table 2.

Partial Pearson’s correlation coefficients adjusted for age and gender between cystatin C, cathepsin L and S, and cardiovascular risk factors.

	Cathepsin S	Cathepsin L	High sensitive C reactive protein	Serum creatinine	Creatinine clearance	Body mass index	Ankle-brachial index
Cystatin C	0.029 p = 0.58	−0.123 p = 0.056	0.192 p < 0.0001	0.509 p < 0.0001	−0.25 p < 0.0001	0.17 p = 0.001	0.011 p = 0.833
Cathepsin S	–	0.227 p < 0.0001	−0.056 p = 0.3	0.074 p = 0.174	−0.081 p = 0.135	−0.001 p = 0.99	−0.005 p = 0.918
Cathepsin L		–	0.012 p = 0.85	−0.009 p = 0.89	0.046 p = 0.49	0.107 p = 0.097	−0.081 p = 0.212
High sensitive C reactive protein			–	0.053 p = 0.326	0.063 p = 0.247	0.108 p = 0.04	0.078 p = 0.137
Serum creatinine				–	−0.634 p < 0.0001	0.112 p = 0.035	0.011 p = 0.843
Creatinine clearance					–	0.49 p < 0.0001	−0.068 p = 0.204
Body mass index						–	−0.080 p = 0.123