Table 6.

Correlations of MMP-2 and MMP-9 with HDL-C, ICAM-1 and VCAM-1

		HDL-C	ICAM-1	VCAM-1
MMP-2	r s	−0.071	0.103	0.133
	p-value	0.211	0.068	0.019
	n	303	313	314
MMP-9	r s	−0.178	0.157	0.130
	p-value	0.002	0.005	0.021
	n	303	313	314

n = number of study subjects overlapped with previous study [3]. p-values were from Spearman correlation coefficient test