Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplantation Improves Cardiovascular Autonomic Neuropathy with Improved Valsalva Ratio as the Most Precocious Test

Table 2

Results of cardiovascular autonomic tests, comparing evolution before and after SPK transplantation in paired patient samples. Statistically results () are marked in bold.

Test	Comparison periods	Statistics				Correlations		Test
			Mean	Standard Deviat.	Mean typical error	Correlation	Sig.		Sig. (bilateral)
SBP	Before SPK	17	-23.76	17.44	4.23	0.11	0.68	-1.13	0.28
	3^rd year		-18.00	13.83	3.35
	Before SPK	16	-24.62	17.32	4.33	0.52	0.04	-2.36	0.03
	5^th-6^th year		-15.66	12.81	3.20
	Before SPK	4	-13.50	8.85	4.42	-0.89	0.11	0.45	0.69
	7^th-8^th year		-20.50	23.27	11.64
	Before SPK	3	-31.33	34.43	19.89	-0.89	0.30	-0.71	0.55
	9^th-10^th year		0.33	45.28	26.14
Valsalva ratio	Before SPK	17	1.11	0.12	0.03	0.49	0.05	-3.46	0.00
	3^rd year		1.21	0.13	0.03
	Before SPK	17	1.09	0.07	0.02	0.52	0.03	-5.39	0.00
	5^th-6^th year		1.23	0.13	0.03
	Before SPK	5	1.12	0.08	0.04	0.92	0.03	-2.41	0.07
	7^th-8^th year		1.29	0.23	0.10
	Before SPK	3	1.13	0.11	0.06	0.87	0.33	-2.79	0.11
	9^th-10^th year		1.36	0.22	0.13
30 : 15 ratio	Before SPK	16	1.02	0.03	0.01	0.35	0.18	-1.83	0.09
	3^rd year		1.05	0.06	0.02
	Before SPK	16	1.03	0.05	0.01	0.05	0.85	-1.72	0.11
	5^th-6^th year		1.10	0.15	0.04
	Before SPK	5	1.01	0.02	0.01	-0.72	0.17	-0.78	0.48
	7^th-8^th year		1.05	0.08	0.03
	Before SPK	3	0.99	0.01	0.00	-0.84	0.36	-1.34	0.31
	9^th-10^th year		1.11	0.15	0.09
/ ratio	Before SPK	11	1.10	0.08	0.02	0.77	0.00	-1.98	0.08
	3^rd year		1.05	0.06	0.02
	Before SPK	12	1.08	0.07	0.02	0.70	0.01	-1.20	0.26
	5^th-6^th year		1.11	0.11	0.03
	Before SPK	2	1.06	0.03	0.02	1.00	0.00	0.52	0.69
	7^th-8^th year		1.06	0.02	0.01

SBP: systolic blood pressure response to orthostasis; 30 : 15 ratio: heart rate response to orthostasis; / ratio: expiration/inspiration or deep breathing ratio; SPK: simultaneous pancreas kidney transplantation.