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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 8.
Published in final edited form as: Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012 Sep 21;14(5):471–479. doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jes189

Table 4.

Determinants of the LV mechanical delay indexes in stepwise regression

Parameter Ts-max, ms Ts-sd, ms Ts-sl, ms Tε-sl, ms
R2 (%) 17.9 19.3 23.5 6.23
Adjusted R2 (%) 16.2 17.6 22.7 5.23
Partial regression coefficients
Female (0, 1)
 β±SE  22.6±5.87  10.21±2.39
 Partial r2 (%) 4.19 5.18
P-value 0.0002 <0.0001
Age (+10 years)
 β±SE  4.58±2.03  1.84±0.83 13.8±2.74 0.76±0.31
 Partial r2 (%) 2.15 2.06 14.7 4.15
P-value 0.025 0.027 <0.0001 0.047
BMI (+1 kg/m2)
 β±SE  2.79±0.70  1.21±0.29 4.30±0.92 2.15±1.05
 Partial r2 (%) 5.54 6.02 8.71 2.08
P-value <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.043
HR (+10 bpm)
 β±SE −10.5±2.9 −4.29±1.18
 Partial r2 (%) 6.03 5.99
P-value 0.0004 0.0003

Values are mutually adjusted partial regression coefficients ±SE. BMI, body mass index; HR, heart rate.

Variance inflation factor (VIF) did not exceed 1.12. Other abbreviations are listed in Table 2.