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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Nephrol. 2014 Jan 5;29(3):415–422. doi: 10.1007/s00467-013-2642-1

Table 2.

Results from linear regression models predicting shortening fraction (SF) and mid-wall shortening fraction (mwSF) with covariates C24:0L and C16:0L

Covariates SF model mwSF model


Estimate SE p Estimate SE p
Covariate C24:0L
  Intercept 95.44 14.99 <0.001 49.15 8.58 <0.001
  Log10 C24:0L −11.7 2.53 <0.001 −5.24 1.45 <0.001
  Age (years) 0.11 0.15 0.46 0.01 0.09 0.89
  GFR (ml/min/1.73 m2) 0.01 0.04 0.74 0.00 0.02 0.99
  BMI z-score 0.81 0.61 0.19 0.43 0.35 0.23
  LVMI (g/m2.7) −0.11 0.10 0.30 −0.12 0.06 0.05
  Anemia 4.26 1.92 0.03 1.67 1.10 0.13
  Serum albumin (mg/dl) 0.25 1.84 0.89 −0.11 1.05 0.92
  SBP z-score 0.90 0.66 0.18 0.16 0.38 0.68
Covariate C16:0L
  Intercept 99.94 19.66 <0.001 50.74 10.95 <0.001
  Log10 C16:0L −8.67 2.54 0.001 −3.81 1.42 0.009
  Age (years) 0.15 0.16 0.38 0.02 0.09 0.80
  GFR (ml/min/1.73 m2) 0.00 0.04 0.95 −0.01 0.02 0.82
  BMI z-score 0.76 0.66 0.25 0.41 0.37 0.27
  LVMI (g/m2.7) −0.08 0.11 0.48 −0.11 0.06 0.09
  Anemia 2.44 2.00 0.23 0.87 1.12 0.44
  Serum albumin (mg/dl −1.35 2.00 0.50 −0.80 1.11 0.48
  SBP z-score 0.75 0.71 0.29 0.09 0.40 0.82

GFR, glomerular filtration rate; BMI, body mass index; SBP, systolic blood pressure; LVMI, left ventricular mass index

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