Table 4
Median (interquartile (IQ) range) BNP and ANP levels by type of anaesthetic and case-control status
| Local anaesthetic | General anaesthetic | Rank sum test Z statistic (p value) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median (pg/ml) | IQ range (pg/ml) | Median (pg/ml) | IQ range (pg/ml) | ||||||||
| ANP | |||||||||||
| Glaucoma | 0 | (0, 5.67) | 4.45 | (0, 6.00) | 1.17 (p=0.24) | ||||||
| Matched controls | 0 | (0, 7.14) | 1.25 | (0, 11.5) | 0.01 (p=0.92) | ||||||
| BNP | |||||||||||
| Glaucoma | 56 | (0, 78.00) | 62.84 | (10, 80.5) | 0.6 (p=0.55) | ||||||
| Matched controls | 67.5 | (0, 95.00) | 63.00 | (5, 150.00) | 0.28 (p=0.78) | ||||||
