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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Card Fail. 2012 Oct;18(10):799–803. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2012.08.356

Table 2.

Association of eNO with echo and exercise stress test parameters

Resting eNO Post-exercise eNO
Variables Correlation (r) p value Correlation (r) p value
Echocardiographic Variables
RVSP 0.40 0.13 0.57 0.0009
LAVI 0.16 0.55 0.43 0.014
LVEF −0.016 0.95 −0.11 0.29
Right Tei index 0.0049 0.98 0.09 0.62
LVDD 0.20 0.45 0.27 0.13
LVESVI −0.052 0.84 0.24 0.19
ADMA/L-arginine
ADMA −0.08 0.74 −0.02 0.88
L-Arginine −0.21 0.41 −0.09 0.61
L-Arginine/ADMA ratio −0.03 0.89 −0.02 0.89
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Variables
peak VO2 −0.44 0.08 −0.18 0.31
VE/VCO2 0.22 0.40 0.17 0.33
Exercise duration −0.46 0.06 −0.15 0.42
Clinical Variables
KCCQ Total symptom score 0.14 0.65 0.17 0.36

Abbreviations: eNO = exhaled nitric oxide; RVSP = right ventricular systolic pressure; LAVI = left atrial volume index; LVEF = left ventricular ejection fraction; LVEDD = left ventricular diastolic dimension; LVESVI = left ventricular end-systolic volume index; ADMA = asymmetric dimethylarginine; VO2 = ventilatory oxygen uptake; VE/VCO2 = ventilatory equivalent ratio for carbon dioxide; KCCQ = Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire