Table 3.

Differences in the average mid-wall Systolic Strain (Ecc) and diastolic strain rate (SR_E) in each left ventricular segment between the HIV− and HIV+ group

LV segment*	Systolic Ecc		Diastolic SRE
	Difference** ± SE	p-value***	Difference ± SE	p-value***
Basal slice
anterior	−0.84 ± 0.68	0.23	1.65 ± 0.79	0.04
anterolateral	−0.12 ± 0.75	0.87	−0.52 ± 0.64	0.42
inferolateral	−1.11 ± 0.66	0.10	−2.09 ± 0.65	0.002
inferior	−2.44 ± 0.66	0.001	−3.18 ± 0.67	< 0.001
inferoseptal	−0.86 ± 0.60	0.16	−1.50 ± 0.69	0.04
anteroseptal	−0.60 ± 0.70	0.40	−1.32 ± 0.78	0.10
Mid-cavity slice
anterior	−2.38 ± 0.74	0.003	−3.74 ± 0.85	< 0.001
anterolateral	0.80 ± 0.71	0.27	−0.03 ± 0.69	0.96
inferolateral	−1.80 ± 0.80	0.03	−2.69 ± 0.62	< 0.001
inferior	−0.52 ± 0.62	0.40	−0.26 ± 0.53	0.62
inferoseptal	−1.20 ± 0.80	0.14	−0.86 ± 0.76	0.27
anteroseptal	0.10 ± 0.75	0.90	−1.03 ± 0.76	0.18
Apical slice
Anterior	−0.54 ± 0.73	0.46	0.54 ±0.79	0.49
Lateral	−1.38 ± 0.92	0.14	−0.26 ± 0.89	0.78
inferior	−0.02 ± 0.73	0.98	−0.62 ± 0.66	0.36
septal	−0.71 ± 0.70	0.32	−0.29 ± 0.76	0.70

Ecc: peak systolic circumferential strain; SR_E: peak early diastolic strain rate. HIV+, HIV positive group; HIV−, HIV negative group.

^*The nomenclature of the left ventricle myocardial segmentations was adopted from reference 11.

^**The difference is the average strain of the HIV− group minus that of the HIV+ group.

^***Between-group differences were compared by a random-effects model.