Table 5.

Spearman rank order correlation of 50 patients with brain stroke.

All patients	Age	mm3	NIHSS	SH	IL-1b	IL-6	IL-8	TNF-α	Chit	MMP2–9	ICAM	VCAM
Age
r	0	no	no	0.219	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
P				0.0125
mm3
r		0	0.59	−0.60	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
P			0.01	0.0001
NIHSS
r			0	No	No	−0.415	−0.351	0.816	0.435	0.488	0.497	0.363
P						0.0029	0.0126	0.000	0.0017	0.000	0.000	0.0098
SH
r				0	No	0.374	0.331	No	−0.296	−0.469	No	0.002
P						0.015	0.016		0.0371	0.002		0.52
IL-1b
r					0	0.337	No	No	No	No	No	No
P						0.0171
IL-6
r						0	No	−0.296	−0333	−0.395	−0.507	No
P								0.0371	0.0182	0.0047	0.000
IL-8
r							0	−0.355	No	−0.306	No	No
P								0.0117		0.0310
TNF-α
r								0	0.479	0.371	0.470	No
P									0.000	0.0082	0.000
Chit
r									0	No	0.535	No
P											0.000
MMP2–9
r										0	0.372	No
P											0.0080
ICAM
r											0	0.317
P												0.0253
VCAM
r												0
P