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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016 Jun;9(6):10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.115.004396 e004396. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.115.004396

Figure 1. Relationship between quartiles of waist-hip-ratio and markers of systolic cardiac mechanics.

Figure 1

(A) global longitudinal strain, (B) peak systolic strain rate, and (C) tissue s’ velocity. Tissue velocities based on speckle-tracking echocardiography are lower than conventional tissue Doppler imaging tissue velocities. P-values are for the linear trend (calculated using linear mixed effects models).