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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 25.
Published in final edited form as: Chest. 2008 Oct 10;135(3):745–751. doi: 10.1378/chest.08-0187

Table 2.

Pearson correlation coefficients for association with BNP

r n
Cath
 Right Atrial Pressure 0.34* 56
 Pulmonary Artery Pressure 0.16 57
 Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure 0.26* 56
 Cardiac Index −0.08 52
 Pulmonary Vascular Resistance Index 0.06 56
 Systemic Arterial Pressure −0.10 57
 Systemic Vascular Resistance Index 0.05 56
 PVR/SVR 0.01 55
Echo
 Right Ventricular Diastolic Dimension 0.23 42
 Left Ventricular Diastolic Dimension −0.52* 45
 Fractional Shortening of the left ventricle 0.23 45
 Tricuspid Regurgitation Velocity 0.24 46
 Tricuspid Regurgitation Pressure Gradient 0.23 47
*

estimate was significantly different from 0, p-value < 0.05