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Table 3 Lung weight/body weight ratio and liver weight/body weight ratio in normal heart animals and hypertrophic heart animals used for the experiment

From: Remote preconditioning in normal and hypertrophic rat hearts

 

normal n = 14

hypertrophic n = 14

p

LW/BW ratio

5.534 ± 0.08274

5.396 ± 0.04775

0.190

LiW/BW ratio

44.13 ± 0.3586

44.02 ± 0.3085

0.8272

  1. The organs potentially affected by heart failure had a similar growth in normal-heart and hypertrophic heart rats. BW = body weight, LW = lung weight, LiW = liver weight.
  2. Values are expressed as the mean ± SEM.
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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

ISSN: 1749-8090

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