Comparison between Procalcitonin, Brain Natriuretic Peptide, and Uric Acid in Children with Cardiomyopathy and Controls

Table 5

Significant matrix correlation of echocardiographic parameters and biomarkers in patients’ population.

Parameters	Age		Uric acid
	PC		PC
Brain Natriuretic Peptide	−0.05	0.776	0.703	0.000
Left ventricular diastolic dimension	0.44	0.007	0.166	0.327
Ejection fraction	0.362	0.028	−0.03	0.86
Left isovolumic contraction time	0.327	0.049	−0.061	0.721
Left acceleration time	0.351	0.033	−0.053	0.758
Left peak A velocity	−0.302	0.069	−0.364	0.027
Right deceleration time	0.337	0.041	0.017	0.919
Ejection time	−0.482	0.003	−0.138	0.414
Left ejection time	0.291	0.081	0.072	0.674
Right ejection time	0.337	0.041	0.095	0.576
Interventricular septal dimension in diastole	−0.172	0.309	0.548	0.000
Ventricular posterior wall dimension in diastole	−0.334	0.043	0.222	0.186