Table 2.

Two dimensional echocardiographic and Doppler parameters of the study population

	Dippers	Non-dippers	P
LVEDD, mm	45±3.9	46.3±3.3	0.1
LVESD, mm	31.5±2.8	31.6±3.3	0.68
Ejection fraction, %	64.1±3.5	62.9±4.2	0.92
Left atrial diameter, mm	34.9±3.1	36.8±2.9	0.16
IVST, mm	9.7±1.8	11.1±1.5	0.001
Posterior wall thickness, mm	9.2±1	9.8±2	0.1
E/A*	0.88 (0.63)	0.86 (0.63)	0.58
DT, ms	200±57.8	204.9±47.8	0.65
IVRT, ms	100.5±29.6	104.7±23.7	0.47
Sm, cm/s	8.8±2.3	9.5±3.0	0.22
E/Em	6.7±2.3	7.9±2.6	0.03
Em/Am*	0.88 (0.81)	0.65 (0.33)	0.41
Peak E’velocity, cm/s	10.3±3.5	9.6±4.1	0.23
Peak A’velocity, cm/s	10.7±3	12.4±4.6	0.06

^*Median (interquartile range)

DT - deceleration time; E/A - peak velocity of early diastolic flow/peak velocity of late diastolic flow; E/Em - peak velocity of early diastolic flow across mitral valve/peak septal annular velocity of early diastole; IVRT - isovolumetric relaxation time; IVST - interventricular septal thickness; LVEDD - left ventricular end-diastolic diameter; LVESD - left ventricular end-systolic diameter. Student's t-test and Mann–Whitney U test were used