Table 5.

Pearson co-relation of catecholamines with blood pressure, body mass index and apnoea-hypopnoea index.

	Diastolic pressure	Systolic pressure	AHI	BMI
PE	0.282*	0.234*	0.166	0.243*
PNE	0.244*	0.231*	0.188	0.119
UE	0.609**	0.556**	0.458**	0.458**
UNE	0.750**	0.758**	0.514**	0.513**

AHI: apnoea-hypopnoea index, BMI: body mass index, PE: plasma epinephrine, PNE: plasma norepinephrine, UE: urine epinephrine, UNE: urine norepinephrine.

^*Correlation significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).

^**Correlation significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).