Plasma and Urinary Levels of Nerve Growth Factor Are Elevated in Primary Hypertension

Table 4

Pearson correlation coefficients for the relationships between plasma levels of the nerve growth factor and catecholamines and between urinary levels of the nerve growth factor and catecholamines.

	All subjects		Normotensive subjects		Hypertensive subjects
	r		r		r
Versus Log [plasma nerve growth factor]
Log [plasma adrenaline]	−0.041	0.704	−0.183	0.223	−0.026	0.868
Log [plasma noradrenaline]	0.201	0.057	0.141	0.352	0.141	0.361
Versus Log [urinary nerve growth factor]
Log [urinary adrenaline]	0.142	0.070	−0.018	0.871	0.232	0.035
Log [urinary noradrenaline]	0.219	0.005	0.115	0.307	0.259	0.018