. 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 3.

Correlations between random slopes of specified variables and random slopes for BNP

	r	Slope
Cath
Right Atrial Pressure	0.95^*	−0.07^*
Pulmonary Artery Pressure	0.94^*	−0.04^*
Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure	0.93^*	−0.06^*
Cardiac Index	−0.71	0.05^*
Pulmonary Vascular Resistance Index	0.89^*	−0.04
Systemic Arterial Pressure	−0.45	0.02
Systemic Vascular Resistance Index	0.50	<.01
PVR/SVR	0.66	−0.02
Echo
Right Ventricular Diastolic Dimension	0.21	0.02
Left Ventricular Diastolic Dimension	−0.28	0.02^*
Fractional Shortening of the left ventricle	0.80^*	−0.02
Tricuspid Regurgitation Velocity	0.81^*	−0.01^*
Tricuspid Regurgitation Pressure Gradient	0.37^*	−0.05^*

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