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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016 Aug;9(8):10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.115.004299 e004299. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.115.004299

Table 3.

Association of LA function and incident AF.

LA Variables Model 1 * Model 2
HR (95% CI) P Value HR (95% CI) P Value
LAVImax 1.82 (1.40–2.36) <0.001 1.38 (1.01–1.89) 0.042
Passive LAEF 0.68 (0.54–0.88) 0.003 0.55 (0.40–0.75) <0.001
Active LAEF 0.74 (0.58–0.94) 0.014 0.95 (0.70–1.27) 0.717
Total LAEF 0.61 (0.48–0.79) <0.01 0.70 (0.52–0.95) 0.020
Peak LA Strain 0.68 (0.50–0.93) 0.014 0.68 (0.48–0.96) 0.031
*

Model 1 was adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, hypertensive medications, and systolic blood pressure.

Model 2 was additionally adjusted for LV mass and Ln NT-ProBNP.

LAVImax: maximum left atrial volume index. LAEF: left atrial emptying fraction