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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2016 Sep 10;29(11):1066–1073. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2016.07.016

Table 2.

Patient Characteristics by Diastolic Function Grade

Variable No
assignable
DFG
All with
assigned
DFG
P1 Normal
(Grade 0)
Impaired
Relaxation
(Grade 1)
Pseudo-
normalization
(Grade 2)
Restrictive
(Grade 3)
P2
N 220 326 104 30 120 72
Time since
Fontan, yr
8.6±3.6 8.5±3.3 .83 8.9±3.3 7.8±3.8 8.2±3.2 8.9±3.2 0.18
Age at echo,
yr
12.1±3.5 11.7±3.3 .31 12.3±3.5 11.4±3.4 11.2±3.1 12.0±3.4 0.09
Heart rate,
bpm*
79±15 71 ±13 <.001 68±11 80±9 77±13 64±12 <.001
Male 57% 62% .24 61% 50% 66% 64% 0.43
Ventricular
Type
.75 0.30
  LV 48% 49% 53% 47% 41% 58%
  RV 35% 33% 28% 37% 39% 26%
  Mixed 17% 18% 19% 17% 20% 15%
*

For heart rate N=160 without DFG, N=277 with DFG; N=88 DFG0, N=25 DFG1, N=100 DFG2; N=64 DFG3. DFG=Diastolic Function Grade

P1=p-value comparing subjects with vs. without an assignable DFG

P2=p-value comparing the 4 DFG groups