TABLE 3.

Plasma levels of troponin I, creatine kinase-MB, triglycerides and total cholesterol in the control, untreated MI, and pre-treated MI groups.

	Control	Untreated MI	Lipoic acid	Zinc	Clopidogrel
	(25)	(16)	(24)	(24)	(25)
Troponin I (ng/ml)
Median	0.6250	0.8333a	0.8542a	0.8542a	0.7292
25th percentile	0.3333	0.5000	0.4479	0.5209	0.5313
75th percentile	0.7500	1.4375	1.5935	1.07275	1.31275
CK-MB (mU/ml)	280.12 ± 35.60	454.24 ± 61.62a	255.33 ± 33.49b	614.13 ± 77.56a	216.53 ± 32.46b
TG (mg/dl)	123.25 ± 8.87	149.67 ± 13.61	77.07 ± 5.38ab	150.73 ± 15.98	94.67 ± 6.99ab
TC (mg/dl)	78.52 ± 14.21	101.53 ± 7.35	73.40 ± 5.75b	81.00 ± 4.80b	92.73 ± 4.70

Values are represented as mean ± SEM (except for troponin I). The number of observations is given in parentheses. MI, myocardial infarction; CK-MB, creatine kinase-MB; TG, triglycerides; TC, total cholesterol. ^aSignificance of differences from control group calculated by the Mann–Whitney test in case of troponin I and Student’s t-test for unpaired data in case of CK-MB, TG and TC at p < 0.05. ^bSignificance of differences from MI group calculated by Student’s t-test for unpaired data at p < 0.05.