Table 3.

Correlation coefficients between the concentrations of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) and aromatic amino acids (AAAs) for healthy control subjects and subjects with hypertension derived by Spearman’s rank correlation analysis.

	Healthy: AAAs			Hypertension: AAAs
BCAAs	Phe	Tyr	Trp	Phe	Tyr	Trp
Ile	0.48 *	0.42 *	0.52 *	0.48 *	0.45 *	0.49 *
Leu	0.58 *	0.47 *	0.56 *	0.53 *	0.46 *	0.53 *
Val	0.52 *	0.45 *	0.55 *	0.47 *	0.44 *	0.49 *

* All p-values: <0.001. Ile, isoleucine; Leu, leucine; Val, valine; Phe, phenylalanine; Tyr, tyrosine; Trp, tryptophan.