Table 2.

Correlation between the β1-AA and indexes by Pearson correlation analysis in all population and patients with ADHF.

	All population		ADHF
	r	P	r	P
sST2	0.525	0.000	0.593	0.000
NT-proBNP	0.189	0.066	0.557	0.000
TG	−0.305	0.005	−0.323	0.000
PCT	0.105	0.329	0.176	0.026
LVEDd	0.088	0.392	0.315	0.000
LVEF	−0.183	0.074	−0.430	0.000

2Log transformations were made for the sST2, NT-proBNP, and PCT in the analysis because of their skewed distribution.