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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Cardiol. 2012 Feb 28;109(10):1454–1458. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2012.01.357

Table 2.

Comparison of myocardial contraction fraction, left ventricular ejection fraction, left ventricular mass, and Framingham coronary risk score between participants experiencing hard cardiovascular disease events (hCVD+) and those free of hard CVD events (hCVD-).

hCVD- hCVD+ P



Pooled: Myocardial contraction fraction 0.55±0.12 0.49±0.11 0.004
Pooled: Left ventricular ejection fraction 0.70±0.06 0.71±0.08 0.27
Pooled: Framingham coronary risk score 7.7±4.3 11.3±4.4 <0.0001
Men: Myocardial contraction fraction 0.52±0.10 0.48±0.16 0.13
Men: Left ventricular ejection fraction 0.69±0.06 0.70±0.10 0.51
Men: Framingham coronary risk score 7.5±3.4 9.7±3.9 0.015
Men: Left ventricular mass, g 158±28 170±28 0.076
Men: Left ventricular mass/Height, g/m 90±15 99±17 0.023
Men: Left ventricular mass/Height2.7, g/m2.7 35±6 39±7 0.003
Men: Left ventricular mass/body surface area, g/m2 76±12 83±13 0.038
Women: Myocardial contraction fraction 0.59±0.13 0.50±0.07 0.015
Women: Left ventricular ejection fraction 0.71±0.06 0.73±0.06 0.26
Women: Framingham coronary risk score 7.9±5.1 13.2±8.0 0.0002
Women: Left ventricular mass, g 109±28 122±21 0.028
Women: Left ventricular mass/Height, g/m 68±14 76±13 0.032
Women: Left ventricular mass/Height2.7, g/m2.7 30±7 34±7 0.022
Women: Left ventricular mass/body surface area, g/m2 62±10 67±8 0.075