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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Cardiol. 2010 Mar 11;105(9):1297–1299. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.12.050

Table 2.

Multivariable Analyses Relating Lipid Concentrations to Echocardiographic Measures

Variable Men (N = 1666) Women (N =1888)
β (SE) p-value β (SE) p-value
A. Relations of High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol to Echocardiographic Traits
Left Ventricular Mass (gm) 1.25 (1.00) 0.21 −0.22 (0.60) 0.72
Left Ventricular Wall Thickness (cm) 0.001 (0.01) 0.81 −0.01 (0.01) 0.052
Left Ventricular End-Diastolic Dimension (cm) 0.01 (0.01) 0.16 0.01 (0.01) 0.11
Left Ventricular End-Systolic Dimension (cm) 0.01 (0.01) 0.38 0.01 (0.01) 0.33
B. Relations of Non-High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol to Echocardiographic Traits
Left Ventricular Mass (gm) −3.76 (1.01) 0.0002 −0.03 (0.02) 0.08
Left Ventricular Wall Thickness (cm) −0.01 (0.01) 0.02 0.00 (0.00) 0.83
Left Ventricular End-Diastolic Dimension (cm) −0.03 (0.01) 0.005 −0.0006 (0.0002) 0.003
Left Ventricular End-Systolic Dimension (cm) −0.02 (0.01) 0.08 −0.0004 (0.0002) 0.02

β (SE) = beta-coefficient estimate (standard error)