Relationship between circulating microparticles and hypertension and other cardiac disease biomarkers in the elderly

Table 2 Meaningful correlations found between TGT parameters of MPslag time, ETP, Peak, ttPeak, startTail parameters and other demographic/laboratory data

Variables		Whole group	Control group	Patient group
MPs lag time	Age	r_s = − 0.217 p = 0.038	r_s = − 0.273 p = 0.063
	Lymphocyte			r = − 0.377 p = 0.015
MPs ETP	CRP	r_s = 0.393 p < 0.0001	r_s = 0.472 p < 0.001
	PDW	r_s = − 0.273 p = 0.015	r_s = − 0.401 p = 0.006
	MPV	r_s = − 0.271 p = 0.015	r = − 0.364 p = 0.013
	PCT			r = − 0.374 p = 0.029
MPs Peak	CRP	r_s = 0.308 p = 0.004	r_s = 0.332 p = 0.023
	PLT		r_s = 0.324 p = 0.026
	PDW	r_s = − 0.233 p = 0.035	r_s = − 0.445 p = 0.002
	MPV	r_s = − 0.272 p = 0.013	r_s = − 0.478 p < 0.001
MPs ttPeak	Age	r_s = − 0.230 p = 0.028
MPs startTail	Age	r_s = −0.261 p = 0.013	r_s = − 0.350 p = 0.016
	CRP	r_s = 0.238 p = 0.028	r_s = 0.314 p = 0.032

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