. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr. 2014 Sep 16;8(6):452–458. doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2014.09.005

Table 2.

Correlation of biomarkers in the peripheral blood at baseline with change of plaque burden or morphology in the follow-up scan.

Biomarker	Overall plaque change (n = 29/54 [54%])		New noncalcified plaque (n = 17/54 [31%])		New calcified plaque (n = 24/54 [44%])		Change of plaque morphology (n = 12/54 [22%])
Biomarker	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P
hs-TnT	0.29	.04	0.07	.60	0.30	.03	0.30	.03
hs-CRP	0.40	.004	0.23	.10	0.14	.32	−0.23	.10

hs-CRP, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein; hs-TnT, high-sensitivity troponin T; n, number of patients. All correlations are adjusted for age, gender and follow-up time.