Correlation of Oxidative and Antioxidative Processes in the Blood of Patients with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

Table 4

Statistically significant correlation coefficients between the parameters measured in the patients with cervical spinal cord injury (studied group).

	Parameters
Before the surgery	TBARS in plasma/TBARS in erythrocytes	0.64
	CD in plasma/TBARS in plasma	0.78
	CD in plasma/TBARS in erythrocytes	0.67
	CD in erythrocytes/TBARS in plasma	0.65
	CD in erythrocytes/TBARS in erythrocytes	0.71
	CD in erythrocytes/CD in plasma	0.80
	CAT/CD in plasma	0.41
	CAT/CD in erythrocytes	0.42
	GPx/SOD	0.31
	ASIA after hospitalisation/TBARS in plasma	0.67
	ASIA after hospitalisation/TBARS in erythrocytes	0.60
	ASIA after hospitalisation/CD in plasma	0.47
	ASIA after hospitalisation/CD in erythrocytes	0.46
	ASIA 24 h after cranial instrumentation/TBARS in plasma	0.53
	ASIA 24 h after cranial instrumentation/TBARS in erythrocytes	0.44
	ASIA 24 h after cranial instrumentation/CD in erythrocytes	0.35
	ASIA 24 h after cranial instrumentation/GPx	−0.30
	ASIA 24 h after cranial instrumentation/ASIA after hospitalisation	0.80
	ISS scale/GPx	0.33
7 days after the surgery	CD in plasma/TBARS in plasma	0.47
	CD in erythrocytes/TBARS in plasma	0.40
	CD in erythrocytes/TBARS in erythrocytes	0.35
	SOD/TBARS in plasma	−0.80
	SOD/TBARS in erythrocytes	−0.36
	SOD/CD in erythrocytes	−0.51
	CAT/TBARS in plasma	0.51
	CAT/TBARS in erythrocytes	0.64
	CAT/CD in erythrocytes	0.48
	CAT/SOD	0.96
	GPx/TBARS in plasma	0.54
	GPx/SOD	−0.74
	GPx/CAT	0.46
	GSH/CAT	−0.32

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TBARS: thiobarbituric acid reactive substances; CD: conjugated dienes; CAT: catalase; GPx: glutathione peroxidase; SOD: superoxide dismutase; GSH: reduced glutathione; ASIA: American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale; ISS: Injury Severity Score.