Relationship between surfactant proteins and RAGE levels and general, clinical, pulmonary function and cardiopulmonary exercise data in the heart failure population.

<p>SPs, RAGE, Peak VO₂, VE/VCO₂ slope and BNP levels are transformed into natural logarithm. BMI: body mass index. For all abbreviations see <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0115030#pone-0115030-t001" target="_blank">table 1</a> and <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0115030#pone-0115030-t002" target="_blank">table 2</a>.</p><p>Relationship between surfactant proteins and RAGE levels and general, clinical, pulmonary function and cardiopulmonary exercise data in the heart failure population.