Independent prognostic value of lipocalin-2 in congenital heart disease-associated pulmonary artery hypertension

Table 7 Correlations of post-repair mean pulmonary artery pressure with clinical variables, n = 23

Variables	Post-operative mPAP		mPAP decrease
	r	P value	r	P value
Sex, male	0.404	0.056	0.303	0.161
Age in months	0.347	0.105	0.434	0.039
BMI	-0.141	0.531	-0.050	0.826
Creatinine in μmol/L	-0.150	0.493	0.248	0.255
BUN in mmol/L	0.236	0.278	0.411	0.052
Albumin in g/L	0.313	0.156	0.029	0.897
Glucose in mmol/L	-0.045	0.849	-0.057	0.813
Hemoglobin in g/L	0.223	0.306	0.163	0.458
Platelets as 109/L	-0.066	0.764	0.107	0.628
White blood cells as 109/L	0.186	0.507	0.623	0.013
SBP in mmHg	0.094	0.677	0.043	0.848
DBP in mmHg	0.361	0.099	0.185	0.410
EF as %	-0.311	0.148	-0.037	0.867
Diameter in mm	0.398	0.060	0.552	0.006
Pre-repair mPAP in mmHg	0.471	0.023	0.883	< 0.001
LCN2 in ng/mL	0.532	0.009	0.181	0.407
ET-1 in μg/mL	0.140	0.523	0.298	0.167

BMI: Body mass index; BUN: Blood urea nitrogen; DBP: Diastolic blood pressure; EF: Ejection fraction; ET-1: Endothelin-1; mPAP: Mean pulmonary artery pressure; SBP: Systolic blood pressure; LCN2: Lipocalin-2.