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Published in final edited form as: J Am Soc Hypertens. 2012 Jan;6(1):48–55. doi: 10.1016/j.jash.2011.10.004

Table 4.

Partial correlations of measures of arterial pressure and indices of arterial stiffness predicting parameters of myocardial remodeling controlling for age and ten cardiovascular risk and metabolic factors (N = 179).

		Parameters of LV Structure and Function
Arterial measures		LVMI	LVHI	LV/HT^2.7	EF	SWMA	MAV	E/E’ ratio
SBP	r	.267	.093	.266	.051	-.031	-.144	.106
SBP	p	.0005	.232	.0005	.508	.687	.063	.170
DBP	r	.227	.194	.246	.117	-.093	-.164	.034
DBP	p	.003	.012	.001	.131	.231	.034	.664
MAP	r	.295	.151	.293	.066	-.036	-.166	.152
MAP	p	.0001	.051	.0001	.387	.642	.032	.049
PP	r	.196	-.006	.182	-.010	.020	-.078	.115
PP	p	.011	.935	.018	.902	.800	.312	.139
LAEI	r	-.038	-.107	-.050	.023	.040	.034	.013
LAEI	p	.622	.166	.521	.770	.603	.661	.871
SAEI	r	.037	-.060	.040	-.504	.064	.144	-.049
SAEI	p	.638	.437	.602	.484	.408	.063	.529

Abbreviations: SBP – systolic blood pressure, DBP – diastolic blood pressure, PP – pulse pressure, MAP – mean arterial pressure, LAEI – large artery elasticity index, SAEI – small artery elasticity index, LVMI – left ventricular mass index, LVHI – left ventricular hypertrophy index, LV/HT ^2.7 – left ventricular mass/height in centimeters ^2.7, EF – ejection fraction, SWMA – presence of segmental wall motion abnormality, MAV – early diastolic mitral annular velocity, E/E’ ratio - Mitral peak velocity of early filling to early diastolic mitral annular velocity ratio, r – partial correlation coefficient, p – p-value. The ten cardiovascular and metabolic factors were hemoglobin A1C, triglyceride, high density lipoprotein and low density lipoprotein, creatinine, blood urea nitrogen and bicarbonate levels, number of cigarettes smoked in pack years, presence of coronary artery disease and occurrence of stroke or transient ischemic attack.