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

Table 4

Spearman correlations and linear regression between the mRNA, protein levels, and aortic diameter for a selected member of ECM.

	mRNA in aortic tissue			Protein levels in blood
	MMP9	Emilin-1	TIMP	MMP9
Correlation coefficient	0.386	−0.496	0.470	0.320
value	0.048	0.015	0.025	0.045
Unstandardized coefficient	0.193	−0.533	0.280	0.007
value	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.004

, , and mean statistical significance.