Table 2.

Correlations between proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin 9 and other biomarkers.

Biomarkers	AMI (N = 281)		Male (N = 220)		Female (N = 61)
	r	P	r	P	r	P
cTnI	−0.010	0.864	−0.008	0.911	0.005	0.969
CKMB	−0.032	0.592	−0.036	0.599	0.053	0.687
BNP	0.050	0.432	0.092	0.202	−0.210	0.124
Hs-CRP	−0.010	0.860	0.027	0.703	−0.228	0.091
TC	0.044	0.479	0.026	0.710	0.056	0.677
LDL-C	−0.025	0.681	−0.034	0.625	−0.009	0.948
HDL-C	0.038	0.536	0.045	0.518	−0.097	0.474
TG	0.041	0.504	0.069	0.320	−0.060	0.658

cTnI, cardiac troponin I; CKMB, MB isoenzyme of creatinine kinase; BNP, B-type natriuretic peptide; Hs-CRP, high-sensitive-C-reactive-protein; TC, total cholesterol; LDL-C, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; TG, total triglyceride.