[Retracted] An Exploratory Study on the Relationship between Brachial Arterial Blood Flow and Cardiac Output

Table 2

Difference analysis on Dist.

Dist (cm)		N	T-test						NPar tests
			Mean ± SD	Levene’s test		t-test			Median (Q1, Q3)	Z
Item	Level			F		T	df
Cardiac disfunction	Abnormal	40	0.416 ± 0.0837	1.376	0.241	1.154	584.000	0.249	0.406 (0.3569, 0.464)	−0.858	0.391
	Normal	546	0.4028 ± 0.0692						0.401 (0.3549, 0.453)
Hypertension	Yes	327	0.4167 ± 0.0718	1.842	0.175	5.134	584.000	<0.001	0.4109 (0.3679, 0.464)	−4.701	<0.001
	No	259	0.3873 ± 0.0649						0.389 (0.3469, 0.432)
Coronary heart disease (CHD)	Yes	284	0.4106 ± 0.0638	8.348	0.004	2.352	577.672	0.019	0.4055 (0.3679, 0.455)	−2.496	0.013
	No	302	0.3971 ± 0.0754						0.389 (0.3449, 0.447)
Hypertension & CHD	Yes	172	0.4207 ± 0.0648	2.275	0.132	3.815	584.000	<0.001	0.4219 (0.373, 0.464)	−3.804	<0.001
	No	414	0.3966 ± 0.0714						0.39 (0.3469, 0.445)