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. 2022 Jul 5;9:894577. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.894577

Table 7.

Significant correlations between lipid profile and inflammaging biomarkers.

	LDL-cholesterol						Total cholesterol
Variable	All subjects n = 106		RA n = 52		OA n = 54		All subjects n = 106		RA n = 52		OA n = 54
Inflammaging	*r^a*	p-value	*r^a*	p-value	*r^a*	p-value	*r^a*	p-value	*r^a*	p-value	*r^a*	p-value
MMP1	0.231	0.017	0.360	0.009	0.089	0.521	0.192	0.049	0.251	0.072	0.135	0.332
TIMP1	0.200	0.040	0.155	0.271	0.269	0.049	0.236	0.015	0.132	0.351	0.337	0.013
TIMP2	0.194	0.046	0.183	0.193	0.207	0.134	0.240	0.013	0.294	0.035	0.164	0.235

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Spearman's rho coefficient; MMP, Metalloproteinases; OA, Osteoarthritis; RA, Rheumatoid Arthritis; TIMP, Tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases.