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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 6.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Chem. 2010 Feb 25;56(4):651–660. doi: 10.1373/clinchem.2009.138586

Table 2.

Demographics as stratified by top and bottom quartiles of cardiac chamber measures.a

LAV P LAVI P LVEDV P LVEDI P LVESV P LVESI P
Age, years 0.02 0.002 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.0002
    Top 56.2 (13.3) 58.8 (13.0) 49.1 (11.5) 49.6 (12.1) 51.2 (12.7) 50.9 (13.5)
    Bottom 51.7 (11.4) 51.7 (11.7) 57.9 (11.9) 57.3 (11.9) 59.0 (11.2) 58.2 (12.0)
Men, n (%) 0.07 0.003 <0.0001 0.24 <0.0001 0.001
    Top 65 (74.7) 50 (57.5) 76 (86.4) 65 (75.6) 78 (83.0) 68 (78.2)
    Bottom 53 (61.6) 69 (79.3) 42 (49.4) 57 (66.3) 33 (39.3) 47 (54.0)
BMI, kg/m2 0.0001 0.14 0.001 0.04 0.22 0.04
    Top 30.9 (5.5) 28.5 (5.4) 31.1 (6.3) 28.4 (5.8) 29.8 (5.9) 28.5 (5.5)
    Bottom 27.6 (5.4) 29.8 (5.8) 28.1 (5.6) 30.3 (5.7) 28.7 (6.1) 30.4 (6.1)
Hypertension, n (%) 0.29 0.54 0.03 0.01 0.007 0.004
    Top 43 (49.4) 43 (49.4) 30 (34.1) 29 (33.7) 35 (37.2) 32 (36.8)
    Bottom 35 (40.7) 39 (44.8) 43 (50.6) 46 (53.5) 49 (58.3) 52 (59.8)
Diabetes mellitus, n (%) 0.04 0.12 0.12 0.99 0.30 0.68
    Top 19 (21.8) 16 (18.4) 14 (15.9) 10 (11.6) 17 (18.1) 15 (17.2)
    Bottom 8 (9.3) 8 (9.2) 7 (8.2) 10 (11.6) 10 (11.9) 12 (13.8)
Hyperlipidemia, n (%) 0.12 0.44 0.76 0.34 0.37 0.99
    Top 39 (44.8) 37 (42.5) 33 (37.5) 28 (32.6) 37 (39.4) 34 (39.1)
    Bottom 28 (32.6) 31 (35.6) 34 (40.0) 35 (40.7) 39 (46.4) 34 (39.1)
Smoker, n (%) 0.65 0.65 0.93 0.99 0.93 0.99
    Top 47 (54.0) 47 (54.0) 46 (52.3) 47 (54.6) 51 (54.3) 49 (56.3)
    Bottom 43 (50.0) 51 (58.6) 45 (52.9) 47 (54.6) 45 (53.6) 49 (56.3)
History of CAD, n (%) 0.03 0.12 0.93 0.99 0.22 0.09
    Top 14 (16.1) 15 (17.2) 13 (14.8) 12 (14.0) 18 (19.2) 18 (20.7)
    Bottom 5 (5.8) 8 (9.2) 13 (15.3) 12 (14.0) 10 (11.9) 9 (10.3)
Family history of CAD, n (%) 0.73 0.73 0.85 0.47 0.87 0.86
    Top 21 (24.1) 21 (24.1) 18 (20.5) 17 (19.8) 25 (26.6) 20 (23.0)
    Bottom 23 (26.7) 24 (27.6) 19 (22.4) 22 (25.6) 24 (28.6) 22 (25.3)
eGFR, mL/min/1.73 m2 0.98 0.67 0.12 0.01 0.02 0.004
    Top 84.2 (18.6) 83.4 (17.6) 85.9 (16.8) 89.3 (18.0) 86.2 (17.3) 87.9 (17.7)
    Bottom 84.3 (16.9) 84.5 (18.4) 81.5 (19.5) 82.0 (18.9) 79.6 (20.4) 79.6 (19.6)
a

Data are mean (SD) unless noted otherwise.