Table 5.

The amount of adipose tissue in the cardiac layers, per section

	IRD (n = 48)	Non-IRD (n = 40)	p Value
Epicardium
None	3 (12)	1 (4)	0.55
Little	3 (12)	6 (25)
Moderate	16 (64)	2 (63)
Pronounced	3 (12)	2 (8)
Myocardium
None	42 (98)	40 (100)	1.00
Little	1 (2)	0 (0)
Moderate and pronounced	0 (0)	0 (0)
Endocardium
None	26 (74)	25 (83)	0.38
Little	9 (26)	5 (17)
Moderate and pronounced	0 (0)	0 (0)

IRD Inflammatory rheumatic disease

Values are the number (percentage) of patients. Owing to missing data for some variables, numbers may not add up to the expected total