Table 2. Correlations between early apoptotic/late apoptotic/total CD34+ EPCs and various parameters.
Parameter | Early Apoptotic Cells | Late Apoptotic Cells | Total CD34+ cells | |||
r | p-value | r | p-value | r | p-value | |
Age | 0.013 | 0.460 | 0.052 | 0.350 | −0.123 | 0.180 |
Heart failure duration | −0.063 | 0.318 | −0.018 | 0.447 | −0.058 | 0.332 |
LVEF | −0.107 | 0.211 | −0.252 | 0.028* | −0.152 | 0.127 |
Creatinine | 0.033 | 0.403 | −0.027 | 0.420 | −0.049 | 0.357 |
Erythropoietin | 0.072 | 0.298 | 0.157 | 0.123 | 0.031 | 0.409 |
Thrombomodulin | 0.093 | 0.247 | 0.091 | 0.251 | 0.031 | 0.411 |
OxLDL antibodies | −0.117 | 0.194 | −0.037 | 0.391 | 0.041 | 0.380 |
Hemoglobin | 0.279 | 0.016* | −0.027 | 0.420 | 0.176 | 0.092 |
CD34% of total | 0.261 | 0.023* | 0.213 | 0.053 |
Statistically Significant.