. 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 3.

Factors influencing the correlation between baseline levels of hs-TnT and hs-CRP at baseline and measures of plaque progression.

Adjustment for	Correlation of hs-CRP with		Correlation of hs-TnT with
	Overall CAD change		Overall CAD change		New calcified plaque		Change of plaque morphology
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Baseline plaque	0.38	.007	0.27	.06	0.27	.06	0.27	.06
LV mass	0.37	.008	0.29	.04	0.31	.04	0.29	.04
Baseline FRS	0.41	.003	0.30	.04	0.31	.03	0.34	.02
ACS at index hospitalization	0.42	.002	0.23	.10	0.26	.07	0.24	.08

CAD, coronary artery disease; FRS, Framingham Risk Score; hs-CRP, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein; hs-TnT, high-sensitivity; LV, left ventricle.

Note that all correlations are additionally adjusted for age, gender and follow-up time.