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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Echocardiography. 2013 Jan 30;30(7):794–802. doi: 10.1111/echo.12134

Table 1.

Clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of the study sample

Clinical/demographics N=215
 Age, years 68.6 ± 10.3
 Body mass index, kg/m2 27.3 ± 4.4
 Women, n (%) 123 (57.2)
 Hypertension, n (%) 150 (69.8)
 Diabetes, n (%) 55 (25.6)
 Hypercholesterolemia, n (%) 129 (60.0)
 CAD, n (%) 5 (2.3)
Echocardiographic data
 LV end-diastolic diameter, mm/m2 26.1 ± 3.3
 LV mass index, g/m2 104.6 ± 26.6
 LV hypertrophy, n (%) 87 (40.5)
 Relative wall thickness 0.48 ± 0.08
 LVEF, % 62.5 ± 8.6
 LVEF < 55%, n (%) 33 (15.3)
Speckle-tracking data
 εL, % −17.2 ± 3.6
 εC, % −18.6 ± 4.4
 εR, % 27.5 ± 8.1

LVEF: Left ventricular ejection fraction. CAD: Coronary artery disease εL: Global systolic longitudinal strain. εC: Global systolic circumferential strain. εR: Global systolic radial strain.