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Figure 4 Myocardial apoptosis in progressive left ventricular (LV) remodeling. Increasing apoptotic rate (AR) in infarct (A) and remote sites (B) in progressive unfavorable LV remodeling. Column height = median value; vertical bar = interquartile range. p = 0.050 at Kruskal-Wallis three-way test for A, and p = 0.11 for B. No statistically significant differences were found comparing the three groups separately at Mann-Whitney, Bonferroni adjusted, two-way U test. *p = 0.014 for cases with compensatory hypertrophy (AR of 3.2% [0.5 to 12.0]) versus the other two groups characterized by LV dilation combined (AR of 26.0% [22.6 to 28.7]) (at Mann-Whitney U test). **p = 0.050 for cases with end-stage dilation (AR of 0.9% [0.7 to 1.1]) versus the other two groups with LV hypertrophy combined (AR of 0.4% [0.3 to 0.7]) (at Mann-Whitney U test).