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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Heart Fail. 2009 Jul 21;2(5):472–481. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.109.853200

Table 1.

Weight comparison of hearts from pulmonary artery banded (PAB) rabbits and sham-operated rabbits. Values are mean ± SEM.

SHAM PAB p-value
Group size n=6 n=9
Body weight (BW) (g) 3108 ± 148 3149 ± 113 0.83
Heart weight (HW) (g) 8.52 ± 0.53 9.45 ± 0.46 0.22
HW/BW (g/kg) 2.74 ± 0.08 3.00 ± 0.10 0.08
RV weight (g) 1.64 ± 0.09 2.50 ± 0.15 <0.001
LV weight (g) 6.16 ± 0.37 6.08 ± 0.28 0.87
RV/HW (%) 19.4 ± 0.7 26.4 ± 0.8 <0.0001