Table 6. Biomarkers related to smoking and gender of MI patients and non-MI subjects.

Biomarker	MI (n = 200)						non MI (n = 200)
	Smoking			Gender			Smoking			Gender
	Median (IQR)			Median (IQR)			Median (IQR)			Median (IQR)
	Current smokers	Non-smokers	p	Women	Men	p	Current smokers	Non-smokers	p	Women	Men	p
MMP-8	350 (587)	275 (536)	0.23	182 (255)	388 (579)	0.01	463 (602)	478 (739)	0.62	335 (598)	487 (633)	0.02
MMP-9	233 (235)	151 (247)	0.09	144 (256)	189 (246)	0.31	240 (277)	225 (260)	0.33	203 (325)	245 (257)	0.19
MPO	1372 (1747)	1077 (1168)	0.16	693 (1102)	1340 (1587)	0.01	1526 (1433)	1454 (1623)	0.99	1181 (1759)	1535 (1593)	0.07
TIMP-1	191 (127)	171 (114)	0.15	180 (130)	187 (125)	0.39	215 (174)	197 (150)	0.31	198 (173)	210 (171)	0.89
MMP-8/ TIMP-1	0.84 (1.78)	0.71 (1.79)	0.59	0.33 (0.76)	0.87 (1.80)	0.01	0.91 (1.59)	0.93 (1.80)	0.70	0.70 (1.33)	0.98 (1.62)	0.08
MMP-9/ TIMP-1	0.28 (0.65)	0.21 (0.69)	0.29	0.16 (0.74)	0.27 (0.60)	0.21	0.29 (0.54)	0.34 (0.66)	0.22	0.29 (0.74)	0.32 (0.53)	0.42

Significance of the differences calculated with Mann-Whitney´s U test.