Table 2.

Correlations of the natural log of plasma MMPs and LV and arterial parameters

	LV stiffness constant (r, p value) n=129	LV volume-to-mass ratio (r, p value) n=121	LVMI (r, p value) n=121	Central PWV (r, p value) n=128
Log MMP-1	0.02, 0.864	0.15, 0.101	0.08, 0.376	0.25, 0.005
Log MMP-2	0.11, 0.222	−0.15, 0.092	−0.21, 0.019	−0.20, 0.027
Log MMP-3	−0.06, 0.496	0.26, 0.004	0.38, <0.001	0.17, 0.050
Log MMP-7	0.12, 0.186	0.02, 0.856	−0.11, 0.226	0.01, 0.877
Log MMP-8	−0.01, 0.917	0.11, 0.224	0.05, 0.557	0.10, 0.250
Log MMP-9	0.00, 0.995	−0.11, 0.229	−0.06, 0.515	0.02, 0.836

n, number or observations.