Research Article
Association between Human Plasma Chondroitin Sulfate Isomers and Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaques
Table 3
Total plasma CS, ΔDi-4S, and ΔDi-nonS levels and CS charge density in control subjects, in the totality of patients and according to plaque typology.
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values obtained by Student’s -tests for normally distributed parameters or by *the Mann-Whitney Rank Sum tests for nonparametric ones are reported. #CS charge density was evaluated as ratio between ΔDi-4S and the sum of ΔDi-nonS and ΔDi-4S. Significant differences are reported in bold (). |