Table 3. Pearson correlation coefficient between LVMI, RWT and the left ventricular diastolic function parameters.

	RWT		LVMI
	r	p	r	p
MV E peak	-0.032	0.327	-0.090	0.270
MV A peak	0.004	0.200	0.019	0.118
MV E/A	-0.118	0.150	-0.014	0.880
DT (ms)	0.024	0.763	-0.059	0.438
IVRT (ms)	-0.022	0.810	0.078	0.321
Em (cm/s)	0.016	0.264	0.078	0.335
Am (cm/s)	0.041	0.117	0.032	0.113
Em/Am	-0.289	< 0.001*	-0.419	< 0.001*
E/Em	0.328	< 0.001*	0.634	< 0.001*
S (cm/s)	-0.028	0.822	-0.030	0.216
D (cm/s)	-0.126	0.313	0.045	0.553
S/D	0.019	0.406	-0.058	0.061
PVa (cm/s)	0.046	0.771	-0.016	0.782
Vp (cm/s)	0.054	0.626	0.012	0.413

RWT: relative wall thickness; LVMI: left ventricular mass index; E peak: left ventricular early diastolic peak velocity; A peak: left ventricular late diastolic peak velocity; DT: E peak deceleration time; IVRT: left ventricular isovolumic relaxation time; the Doppler tissue blood flow spectrum of the interventricular septum of the mitral ring; Em: early diastolic peak velocity; Am: late diastolic peak velocity; the blood flow spectrum of the pulmonary vein: S-wave: ventricular contraction wave peak, D-wave: ventricular diastolic wave peak; PVa: the backwards blood flow wave velocity in atrial contraction; Vp: left ventricular early diastolic flow velocity of propagation