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Published in final edited form as: Life Sci. 2015 Jan 14;123:61–71. doi: 10.1016/j.lfs.2014.12.024

TABLE 1.

Echocardiographic and Electrocardiogram parameters in 4 M HF animals

	Baseline	1 Month HF	4 Month HF
Fractional shortening (%)	29.6 ± 1.49	15.2 ± 0.97^*	11.2 ± 0.84^*^, ^#
Left Ventricle Dimension (cm)
Diastole	3.46 ± 0.13	4.33 ± 0.15^*	5.28 ± 0.21^*^, ^#
Systole	2.41 ± 0.07	3.67 ± 0.12^*	4.68 ± 0.18^*^, ^#
Left Ventricle mass (g)	91.6 ± 9.15	121.2 ± 11.0	157.7 ± 16.1^*^, ^#
ECG parameters
PR (ms)	110.7 ± 5.24	108.1 ± 5.01	107.9 ± 3.85
QRS (ms)	45.8 ± 2.47	50.1 ± 3.03	54.2 ± 4.10^*
RR (ms)	578.4 ± 35.4	520.2 ± 53.3	511.2 ± 69.4
QT (ms)	201.1 ± 6.10	199.6 ± 7.40	198.9 ± 8.38
QT_cf (ms)	242.5 ± 3.35	250.1 ± 4.59	252.4 ± 4.33^*

N=7–10 per observation;

^*

p<0.05 vs baseline;

^#

p<0.05 vs 1 M HF. Values are means ± SE.