Table 3 Correlation between the plasma levels of angiogenic cytokines and clinical and cardiac MRI measures in 39 postinfarction patients

	Stem cell factor (pg/ml)		Stromal-derived factor-1 (pg/ml)		Vascular endothelial growth factor (pg/ml)
	r	p Value	r	p Value	r	p Value
Age (years)	0.17	0.29	0.20	0.22	0.05	0.76
Body surface area (m²)	−0.16	0.33	0.06	0.75	0.09	0.65
Peak oxygen uptake (ml/kg/min)	−0.09	0.57	−0.45	<0.01	−0.16	0.39
LV ejection fraction (%)	−0.08	0.63	0.07	0.66	0.19	0.25
Cardiac index (l/min/m²)	0.05	0.75	−0.22	0.18	−0.02	0.91
LV mass index (g/m²)	−0.22	0.18	−0.03	0.97	−0.22	0.17
Infarct size (g)	0.01	0.93	−0.15	0.37	−0.11	0.52
Blood flow in remote myocardium at rest (ml/min/g)	−0.20	0.23	−0.28	0.09	−0.19	0.24
Blood flow in remote myocardium at stress (ml/min/g)	0.05	0.78	−0.39	0.03	0.10	0.53
Blood flow in infarcted myocardium at rest (ml/min/g)	0.07	0.70	−0.32	0.04	0.12	0.45
Blood flow in infarcted myocardium at stress (ml/min/g)	0.05	0.77	−0.62	<0.001	0.17	0.30

The value of vascular endothelial growth factor has been logarithmically transformed.
LV, left ventricular.