Fig. 8.

(A) There was a significant positive relationship between the postinfarction change in stressed blood volume, $SBV$, and the difference in peak circumferential stretch, ${\lambda }_c$. (B) There was a significant positive relationship between the postinfarction change in $SBV$ and the difference in peak radial stretch, ${\lambda }_r$. (C) There was a significant negative relationship between the postinfarction change in $E_n$ and the postinfarction difference in peak ${\lambda }_r$. In all cases, linear regression passed the test for homoscedasticity and the two-tailed Pearson correlation coefficients were considered significant if p < 0.05.