|
Assay
|
Group
|
Baseline
|
Immediately post-exercise
|
1 hour post-exercise
|
P value
|
|---|
|
PCR
|
HV
|
7.0 (4.0–25.0)
|
9.0† (5.0–34.0)
|
9 (5.0–31.0)
|
0.014
|
| |
IC
|
7.0 (2.0–52.0)
|
10.5† (2.0–63.0)
|
7.5 (3.0–58.0)
|
0.005
|
|
ACR
|
HV
|
0.9 (0.9–13.2)
|
1.0 (0.9–19.6)
|
0.9 (0.9–20.2)
|
>0.05
|
| |
IC
|
1.0 (0.9–34.2)
|
1.75‡ (0.9–34.7)
|
1.0 (0.9–31.3)
|
0.046
|
|
NAG
|
HV
|
0.7 (0.4–1.5)
|
0.8 (0.3–2.1)
|
0.8 (0.4–1.4)
|
>0.05
|
| |
IC
|
1.4 (0.2–7.8)
|
1.4 (0.2–6.8)
|
1.2 (0.2–5.0)
|
>0.05
|
- HV = healthy volunteers, IC = patients with intermittent claudication. Numbers represent medians with the range in brackets. P values represent Friedman's test. ‡p < 0.05, †p < 0.001 (Wilcoxon signed rank test, comparisons made with baseline values).
