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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 2. Relationship between quartiles of waist-hip-ratio and diastolic indices.

Figure 2

(A) early diastolic strain rate, (B) tissue e’ velocity, and (C) E/e’ ratio (an estimate of LV filling pressures). Tissue velocities based on speckle-tracking echocardiography are lower than conventional tissue Doppler imaging-based tissue velocities. Thus, e’ velocity is lower, and E/e’ ratio higher, than conventional studies that use tissue Doppler imaging. P-values are for the linear trend (calculated using linear mixed effects models).