The Correlation between High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein, Matrix Metallopeptidase 9, and Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome in Patients with Hypertension

Table 2

The positive rate comparison of HCRP, MMP9, and TCM syndrome in different hypertensive subgroups.

	Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular infarction events
	No cases (%)	Acute cases (%)	Obsolete cases (%)	𝜒^2	𝑃
Cases	182	48	38	—	—
Syndrome of wind	27 (14.8%)	23 (47.9%)	5 (13.2%)	26.957	0.000
Syndrome of heat	26 (14.3%)	10 (20.8%)	5 (13.2%)	1.413	0.493
Phlegm turbidity	12 (6.6%)	26 (54.2%)	3 (7.9%)	68.212	0.000
Blood stasis	135 (74.2%)	37 (77.1%)	30 (78.9%)	0.478	0.788
Syndrome of deficiency	45 (24.7%)	2 (4.2%)	11 (28.9%)	10.860	0.004
HCRP ≥ 3 mg/L	45 (24.7%)	31 (64.6%)	12 (31.6%)	27.393	0.000
MMP9 ≥ 140 ng/mL	108 (59.3%)	39 (81.3%)	34 (89.5%)	18.034	0.000