Table 4.

Postmortem parameters at 12 weeks of air or E-cig exposure

	Air	E-cig Nic +	p value	Effect size
	n = 33	n = 28		(Cohen’s d)
Postmortem LV volume (ml)	0.7333 ± 0.0373	0.6874 ± 0.0404	0.407	0.21
BW (grams)	415 ± 22	368 ± 18	0.109	0.41
Tibia length(mm)	43.0576 ± 0.5202	41.7075 ± 0.5151	0.070	0.47
Heart weight (grams)	1.1277 ± 0.0541	1.0118 ± 0.0463	0.109	0.41
Left ventricle weight (grams)	0.9372 ± 0.0450	0.8488 ± 0.0387	0.142	0.38
Right Ventricle Weight (grams)	0.1923 ± 0.0106	0.1614 ± 0.0095	0.034	0.55
Heart weight/BW	0.0028 ± 0.0001	0.0028 ± 0.0001	0.779	0.07
LV weight/BW	0.0023 ± 0.0001	0.0023 ± 0.0001	0.550	0.16
Heart weight/Tibia	0.0259 ± 0.0010	0.0241 ± 0.0009	0.181	0.34
LW weight/tibia	0.0215 ± 0.0009	0.0202 ± 0.0008	0.252	0.29
Lung wet weight (grams)	1.3556 ± 0.0438	1.3724 ± 0.0530	0.808	0.06
Lung dry weight (grams)	0.2110 ± 0.0080	0.2052 ± 0.0069	0.586	0.14
Lung wet/dry weight ratio	6.4863 ± 0.1059	6.7351 ± 0.2047	0.287	− 0.29

LV left ventricular, BW Body weight