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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2014 May 5;129(23):2380–2387. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.006855

Table 2.

Serum biomarkers collected at enrollment; summaries presented as median (25th, 75th percentile) unless noted otherwise

Reduced
n = 1187
Preserved
n = 94
Recovered
n = 142
P*
BNP, pg/mL 214 (65, 681) 77 (39, 234) 66 (25, 159) < 0.001
PlGF, pg/mL 18.8 (15.2, 23.1) 18.5 (15.6, 22.5) 18.4 (15.2, 22.3) 0.86
sFlt-1, pg/mL 311 (261, 384) 310 (267, 363) 281 (247, 326) < 0.001
hsCRP, mg/L 0.37 (0.15, 0.92) 0.34 (0.15, 0.98) 0.26 (0.11, 0.70) 0.11
MPO, pmol/L 136 (94, 224) 165 (106, 262) 130 (94, 207) 0.20
ST2, ng/mL 24.7 (19.8, 41.3) 27.9 (21.5, 40.0) 25.1 (18.2, 34.7) 0.037
TnI < 0.001
 Detectable, n (%) 810 (68) 45 (48) 63 (44)
 TnI, ng/mL, median (IQR)** 0.020 (0.010, 0.040) 0.010 (0.010, 0.030) 0.010 (0.010, 0.020)
Creatinine, mg/dL 0.93 (0.77, 1.27) 0.90 (0.77, 1.39) 0.82 (0.72, 1.12) 0.003
Uric acid, mg/dL 7.0 (5.7, 8.9) 7.2 (5.5, 8.6) 6.5 (5.1, 8.6) 0.035
*

P values obtained from Kruskal-Wallis rank-sum tests

BNP, B-type natriuretic peptide; PlGF, placental growth factor; sFlt-1, soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase receptor-1; hsCRP, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein; MPO, myeloperoxidase; ST2, soluble toll-like receptor-2; TnI, troponin I