. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Pregnancy Hypertens. 2013 Jan 19;3(2):140–145. doi: 10.1016/j.preghy.2013.01.006

Table 3.

Evaluation of correlations between prepregnant and subsequent visit measurements.

Characteristic	Pre vs. Early Pregnancy		Pre vs. Late Pregnancy
Characteristic	r	p-value^a	r	p-value^a
PWV	0.55	0.02	0.49	0.03
FMD/SS	−0.39	0.10	−0.06	0.81
sVCAM-1	0.57	0.01	0.63	0.003
sICAM-1	0.82	<.001	0.73	<.001
TNFα	0.80	<.001	0.82	<.001
IL-4	0.68	0.002	0.54	0.02
vWF	0.544	0.02	0.63	0.003
CRP^b	0.81	<.001	0.89	<.001

PWV: pulse wave velocity; FMD/SS: flow-mediated vasodilation/shear stress; sVCAM-1: soluble vascular cellular adhesion molecule -1; sICAM-1: soluble intercellular cell adhesion molecule-1; TNFα: tumor necrosis factor alpha; IL-4: interleukin-4; vWF: von Willebrand factor; CRP: C-reactive peptide

Tabled values are Spearman's rank correlation coefficients and associated significance levels.

Data was log transformed prior to analysis.