Table 2.

Pearson product moment correlation (r-value) for endothelin isoforms in plasma (PL) and saliva (SL) of male subjects (n = 30).

	ET-1 PL	ET-2 PL	ET-3 PL	BET-1 SL	ET-1 SL	ET-2 SL	ET-3 SL
BET-1 PL	0.39 (0.033)	0.27 (0.157)	0.46 (0.011)	0.38 (0.041)	0.30 (0.110)	−0.11 (0.571)	0.41 (0.024)
ET-1 PL		0.25 (0.183)	0.57 (0.001)	0.31 (0.093)	0.53 (0.003)	−0.22 (0.251)	0.46 (0.011)
ET-2 PL			0.13 (0.511)	0.01 (0.974)	0.15 (0.434)	0.51 (0.004)	0.16 (0.406)
ET-3 PL				0.17 (0.383)	0.16 (0.409)	−0.29 (0.121)	0.75 (<0.001)
BET-1 SL					0.75 (<0.001)	−0.12 (0.534)	0.31 (0.091)
ET-1 SL						−0.13 (0.491)	0.27 (0.144)
ET-2 SL							−0.167 (0.378)

Note: P values are given in parentheses.