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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 24.
Published in final edited form as: Ther Adv Cardiovasc Dis. 2009 Sep 1;3(5):347–356. doi: 10.1177/1753944709345790

Table 2.

Circulating humoral factors.

Normal Na+ Low Na+ p-value
Norepinephrine (pg/ml) 271±17 336±46 0.16
ET-1 (pg/ml) 6.2±0.4 6.9±0.4 0.26
Oxidized LDL (U/L) 56.1±3.0 63.9±6.2 0.25
Total antioxidant status (mmol/l) 1.40±0.09 1.18±0.08 0.24
C-reactive protein (mg/l) 0.76±0.06 0.84±0.22 0.68
IL-6 (pg/ml) 1.8±0.4 1.3±0.1 0.23
TNF-α(pg/ml) 1.7±0.2 1.4±0.1 0.24

Data are mean ± S.E. ET-1, endothelin-1; IL-6, interleukin-6; TNF-alpha, tumor necrosis factor-α.