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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 23.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2013 Jul 31;128(10):1105–1111. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.001984

Table 3.

Factors Univariately Associated With LV Function

LVEF (per % point) GLS (per % point)


B (SE) P Value B (SE) P Value
Age (per year) −0.03 (0.03) 0.34 0.04 (0.02) <0.01
Male sex −3.11 (0.61) <0.01 0.47 (0.29) 0.11
Body mass index (per kg/m2) −0.17 (0.07) <0.05 0.04 (0.03) 0.25
SBP (per mm Hg) 0.02 (0.02) 0.29 0.03 (0.01) <0.01
DBP (per mm Hg) 0.02 (0.03) 0.61 0.06 (0.02) <0.01
Hypertension 0.37 (0.68) 0.59 1.11 (0.32) <0.01
Diabetes mellitus 0.27 (0.69) 0.70 0.86 (0.32) <0.01
Hypercholesterolemia 0.73 (0.62) 0.25 0.41 (0.29) 0.17
Smoking history −1.01 (0.61) 0.10 0.28 (0.29) 0.33
Current smoking −0.56 (1.17) 0.64 −0.30 (0.55) 0.59
LV mass index (per g/m2) −0.04 (0.01) <0.01 0.03 (0.01) <0.01
Relative wall thickness 12.61 (3.56) <0.01 3.48 (1.69) <0.05
Left atrial diameter (per mm/m2) 0.06 (0.11) 0.61 0.01 (0.05) 0.83
LV diastolic dysfunction −1.14 (0.61) 0.06 1.45 (0.28) <0.01

Values in table are parameter estimates (B) and relative standard error (SE). DBP indicates diastolic blood pressure; GLS, global longitudinal strain; LV, left ventricular; LVEF, LV ejection fraction; and SBP, systolic blood pressure.