Table 2.

Echocardiographic parameters and associations with cardiovascular events

HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; LV, left ventricle; IVSd, diastolic interventricular septal wall thickness, IVSs, systolic interventricular septal wall thickness; PWd, diastolic left ventricular posterior wall thickness; PWs, systolic left ventricular posterior wall thickness; LA AP, left atrial antero-posterior diameter; AO, aortic root diameter; RWT, relative wall thickness; FS, fractional shortening; E, early diastolic transmitral inflow velocity; A, late diastolic transmitral flow velocity; DT, deceleration time; s', mitral annular systolic velocity; e', early diastolic mitral annular velocity; a', late diastolic mitral annular velocity; RV, right ventricle; TR, tricuspid regurgitation; RWMA, regional wall motion abnormality.