2.5. Small Extracellular Vesicle miRNAs in Cardiac Patients
miR-499a and miR-133a were not present in our samples in any of the sampling timepoints, and miR-1 was only detectable in a handful of samples without data consistency. Thus, those miRNAs were omitted from further analyses.miR-24 (Unsurprisingly, the miRNA expression of all three miRNAs correlated positively amongst themselves (miR-24 and miR-21: Furthermore, a negative correlation of miR-24 (No significant correlation of small EV miRNAs with the EF, ESV or EDV was observed. However, an increasing miR-24 (Even though all three miRNAs are mostly known for their cardiac regulatory potential, we observed a negative correlation with GGT, LDH, and CRP, and a positive correlation with eGFR (For all three miRNAs, a negative correlation with lipid metabolism parameters were observed, but this finding was only significant for the overall patient cohort for miR-126 and cholesterol (