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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Free Radic Biol Med. 2010 May 5;49(3):401–407. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2010.04.033

Table 3.

Cardiac function in control mice and mice given repetitive injections of iron dextran for a total of 4 weeks. Values shown are mean ± 1 standard deviation (n = 10 in each group). In all measures except for heart rate, iron treated mice differ from controls at p<0.001 (Student’s t test, two-tailed).

Group Heart Rate AWTd PWTd RWT LVIDD LVEF
single
plane
Control 512±36.36 0.70±0.06 0.83±0.07 0.43±0.14 3.6±0.26 0.68±0.06
Iron treated 472±29.79 0.99±0.15 0.93±0.01 0.67±0.05 2.9±0.37 0.80±0.07

Abbreviations: AWTd: anterior wall thickness in diastole. PWTd: posterior wall thickness in diastole. RWT: relative wall thickness = (AWT + PWT)/LVIDD. LVIDD: left ventricle internal diameter in diastole. LVEF: left ventricular ejection fraction = (EDV - ESV)/ED.