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Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2014 Mar 24;47(10):2498–2503. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.03.023

Table 3.

Spearman correlation coefficients of selected anatomical and flow model endpoints to AHI decrease.

Endpoint	All Subjects (N=10)		>10% improved AHI Subjects (N=7)
Endpoint	r_s	p	r_s	P
Airway Volume Increase	−0.35	0.331	0.21	0.662
Minimum Area Increase	0.53	0.123	0.32	0.498
dP_TAmax Decrease	0.78	0.012	0.93	0.007
PQR_TAmax Decrease	0.75	0.018	0.86	0.024
PQR_{TA Bernoulli} Decrease	0.82	0.007	0.89	0.012
P_min Increase	0.24	0.514	0.07	0.906