Table 1.

The basic characteristics of the subjects.

	Control	MI patients	p-valuea
No. of subjects	30	30	–
Age, mean ± SD, years	55.23 ± 6.21	56.30 ± 6.70	0.525
Gender, male/female, no.	15/15	15/15	1.000
CK (U/L)	93.73 ± 44.24	97.53 ± 43.82	0.739
CK-MB (U/L)	14.43 ± 4.23	13.77 ± 3.33	0.500
CER (μmol/L)	74.41 ± 20.64	76.05 ± 19.67	0.754
TC (mmol/L)	3.79 ± 0.96	4.70 ± 1.18	0.002
TG (mmol/L)	1.11 ± 0.38	2.32 ± 0.59	0.000

^aUnpaired t-tests and χ² tests were used to assess the difference between control and patients.