The Relationship between Reactive Oxygen Species and Cardiac Fibrosis in the Dahl Salt-Sensitive Rat under ACEI Administration

Table 1

Echocardiographic data in 19 weeks. Detailed data from the echocardiographic studies. No statistically significant difference was observed among the ACEI administration groups in IVSd, IVSs, LVPWd, and %FS.

	IVSs (mm)	LVIDs (mm)	LVPWs (mm)	IVSd (mm)	LVIDd (mm)	LVPWd (mm)	FS (%)	E/A
Group P	0.73±0.07	0.48±0.07	0.31±0.02	0.28±0.03	0.48±0.07	0.26±0.01	33.6±4.2	0.84±0.13
Group L	0.76±0.10	0.53±0.05	0.27±0.05	0.25±0.05	0.53±0.09	0.25±0.04	29.6±4.9	0.68±0.07
Group H	0.83±0.10	0.54±0.05	0.28±0.04	0.24±0.03	0.54±0.11	0.23±0.03	35.1±7.1	0.83±0.18
Group E	0.82±0.04 *	0.55±0.03	0.27±0.02	0.24±0.02 *	0.55±0.09	0.22±0.03 *	32.8±8.4	0.66±0.35

Mean ± SD, *means significant decrease compared with Group P.