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

Table 4

Difference analysis on cardiac output.

Cardiac Output (L/min)		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	4.5477 ± 1.5555	8.490	0.004	−1.138	42.359	0.261	4.63 (3.345, 5.655)	−1.112	0.266
	Normal	546	4.8335 ± 1.1812						4.775 (4.01, 5.56)
Hypertension	Yes	327	4.9982 ± 1.192	0.049	0.825	4.196	584.000	<0.001	4.89 (4.15, 5.72)	−4.086	<0.001
	No	259	4.5814 ± 1.1966						4.56 (3.81, 5.22)
Coronary heart disease (CHD)	Yes	284	4.8074 ± 1.1893	0.847	0.358	−0.127	584.000	0.899	4.695 (3.985, 5.495)	−0.605	0.545
	No	302	4.8201 ± 1.2328						4.805 (3.94, 5.66)
Hypertension & CHD	Yes	172	5.004 ± 1.1378	1.356	0.245	2.459	584.000	0.014	4.86 (4.155, 5.625)	−2.294	0.022
	No	414	4.735 ± 1.2327						4.7 (3.85, 5.53)