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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cardiovasc Pathol. 2014 Aug 15;24(1):19–25. doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2014.08.004

Table 4.

Relation of baseline plasma ET-1 to the change in LVEF at 1-month follow-up

Response=Square root of baseline plasma ET-1
Estimate
(slope, B)		 Confidence
Interval (95%)		 P value Standardized
coefficient (β)
Age, years   0.0078   0.0023–0.01325   0.0053*   2.83
Female Gender   0.1650   0.0136–0.3164   0.033*   2.16
BMI   0.0007 −0.0105–0.0119   0.9007   0.12
Baseline LVEF −0.0173 −0.0239 to −0.0107 <0.0001* −5.21
% Increase in LVEF after 30days   0.0029 −0.0012–0.0071   0.1587   1.42
Smoking   0.3084   0.1729–0.4440 <0.0001*   4.50

LVEF: left ventricular ejection fraction. % Increase in LVEF=((LVEF at 30days−LVEF at baseline)/LVEF at baseline)*100. β is the standardized coefficient (slope/std error).