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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Gerontol. 2019 May 13;123:36–44. doi: 10.1016/j.exger.2019.05.004

Table 3.

Correlations of the natural log of plasma TIMPs, MMPs/TIMPs ratios 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 TIMP-1 −0.05, 0.589 0.09, 0.303 0.11, 0.246 0.01, 0.871
Log TIMP-2 0.07, 0.436 −0.15, 0.099 −0.08, 0.366 −0.14, 0.127
Log TIMP-3 0.02, 0.786 −0.10, 0.271 −0.10, 0.270 −0.15, 0.090
Log TIMP-4 −0.07, 0.399 −0.08, 0.412 −0.02, 0.815 −0.01, 0.893
MMP-2/TIMP-1 0.11, 0.235 −0.16, 0.082 −0.22, 0.017 −0.19, 0.031
MMP-2/TIMP-4 0.13, 0.148 −0.10, 0.295 −0.19, 0.038 −0.14, 0.105
MMP-9/TIMP-1 0.02, 0.792 −0.10, 0.255 −0.08, 0.413 −0.01, 0.973
MMP-9/TIMP-4 0.01, 0.904 −0.04, 0.693 −0.02, 0.813 0.00, 0.957

n, number or observations.