Clinical and Electrocardiographic Evaluation of Sickle-Cell Anaemia Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension

Table 6

Pulmonary artery pressure; correlation with some clinical and electrocardiographic parameters.

Parameters	Patients		Controls
	r	𝑃 value	r	𝑃 value
Age	0.149	0.249	−0.003	0.983
Freq. of crisis	0.308^*a	0.015	—	—
BMI	−0.297*	0.019	0.226	0.077
BSA	−0.176	0.170	0.126	0.329
MAP	−0.103	0.423	−0.156	0.225
Haematocrit	0.171	0.185	0.230	0.072
Heart rate	0.093	0.474	0.112	0.387
QTc	0.262*	0.040	0.250	0.050

* Statistically significant (2 sided), 𝑟 = Pearson’s correlation coefficient, 𝑃 = probability value, ^a Spearman correlation, BMI = body mass index, BSA = body surface area, and MAP = mean arterial blood pressure.