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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2014 Sep 23;43(1):107–121. doi: 10.1007/s10439-014-1118-1

Table 7.

Correlation results between plaque burden increase (PBI) and six risk parameters (WSS, WT, plaque burden, plaque area, PWS, and PWSn) using slice average values at baseline (T1).

Patient PBI vs. WSS PBI vs. WT PBI vs. Plaque Burden
r p r p r p
F1 (57 slices) −0.4511 <0.0001 −0.7559 0.0000 −0.8624 <0.0001
F2 (36 slices) −0.6047 0.0025 −0.3212 0.0311 −0.6966 0.0039
F3 (34 slices) −0.5870 0.0041 −0.3430 0.1440 −0.6086 0.0026
All (127 slices) −0.7286 <0.0001 −0.5185 2.96E-07 −0.5500 <0.0001
Patient PBI vs. Plaque Area PBI vs. PWS PBI vs. PWSn
r p r p r p
F1 (57 slices) −0.8242 <0.0001 0.6487 0.0001 0.2347 0.0304
F2 (36 slices) −0.5763 0.0409 −0.0952 0.7788 −0.2154 0.4254
F3 (34 slices) 0.0452 0.8455 −0.3429 0.2921 0.1698 0.3252
All (127 slices) −0.5566 <0.0001 0.2142 0.1464 0.1181 0.1199