Fig. 3

Carotid atheromas from women have a greater protein abundance in four functional groups. Functional groups, as a whole, and then individual proteins belonging to each group were tested for significant differences between men and women via univariate non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test, with significant p values; p* < 0.05, p** < 0.01 and p*** < 0.001. a Blood coagulation, b transport, c complement activation and d peptidase activity (negative). Individual scatter plots for significantly altered proteins between men and women can be found in Additional file 1: Figure S2