Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Table 1 Results of basic characteristics according to disease duration

From: Serial T1 mapping of right ventricle in pulmonary hypertension: comparison with histology in an animal study

	Baseline	2 weeks	4 weeks	6 weeks	8 weeks
Body weight (g)	267 ± 8	311 ± 9	343 ± 7	369 ± 12	418 ± 8
P value*		0.002	0.002	0.002	0.002
P value^†		0.002	0.002	0.002	0.002
Hematocrit (%)	53.8 ± 2.0	54.1 ± 1.6	57.0 ± 3.0	60.1 ± 2.7	62.0 ± 2.8
P value*		0.729	0.071	0.004	0.002
P value^†		0.729	0.097	0.132	0.310
Heart rate (bpm)^‡	283 ± 13	282 ± 16	285 ± 15	289 ± 13	296 ± 16

Data are means ± standard deviations
*Between the baseline group and each duration group
^†Between two sequentially adjacent duration groups
^‡No significant difference seen with the Kruskall–Wallis test (P = 0.648)

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