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TABLE 6.

Multivariate regression analysis: Independent predictors of left atrial systolic force in controls, and in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and other cardiac diseases

	*Healthy controls^ (n=100)**			Dilated cardiomyopathy^†(n=94)			Aortic stenosis, HCMP, hypertension^‡(n=306)
Variable	Beta	P	Variable	Beta	P	Variable	Beta	P
Relative wall thickness	0.30	0.002	Age, years	0.49	0.001	Age, years	0.18	0.001
Age, years	0.25	0.01	Cardiac output, L/min/m²	0.33	0.003	LV mass, g/m^2.7	0.24	<0.001
			Relative wall thickness	0.21	0.005	LV EDV, mL/m³	0.21	0.002

r=0.50, standard error of estimation (SEE) = 1.85, P<0.001;

^†

r=0.59, SEE=9.1, P<0.001;

^‡

r=0.43, SEE=7.4, P<0.001. EDV End-diastolic volume; HCMP Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; LV Left ventricular