Figure 5.

Increase in the apoptotic rate in progressive post-infarction cardiac remodelling. When patients are divided into three groups according to increasing severity of cardiac remodelling (uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction (AMI) with undilated hearts, isolated left ventricular (LV) dilatation, and combined left ventricular and right ventricular enlargement), a significant difference in apoptotic rates between the three groups is evident (p for trend, 0.008). The box represents the median value and the vertical bar shows the interquartile range.