Detection of Pathological Changes in the Aorta during Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Progression on Molecular Level

Table 3

Spearman correlations and linear regression between the mRNA, protein levels, and aortic diameter for selected cytokines and their receptors.

	mRNA in aortic tissue		Protein levels in blood
	CRP	IL-6	CRP	IL-6	IL-6R	TNFR1	TNFR2
Correlation coefficient	0.489	0.554	0.025	0.320	−0.37	0.272	0.268
value	0.015	0.017	0.642	0.524	0.024	0.058	0.063
Unstandardized coefficient	0.105	0.710	0.027	−0.006	0.007	0.966	0.771
value	0.197	0.000	0.051	0.503	0.004	0.177	0.120

Statistical significance: , , and .