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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Heart Fail. 2016 Oct 12;4(11):860–869. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2016.08.002

Table 2.

Baseline imaging and cardiopulmonary exercise testing results, divided by median baseline IGFBP7 concentration.

Spearman correlation
Characteristic N IGFBP7 < 219ng/mL IGFBP7 > 219 ng/mL Wilcoxon with rank sum baseline P value IGFBP7 (ρ) Spearman correlation P value
Baseline echocardiography
MV inflow: E velocity at leaf tip (m/sec), median (IQR) 151 0.9 (0.7, 1.1) 1.1 (0.9, 1.4) <0.0001 0.395 <0.0001
MV inflow: A velocity at leaf tip (m/sec), median (IQR) 112 0.7 (0.5, 0.9) 0.6 (0.4, 0.9) 0.30 −0.066 0.49
E/A ratio, median (IQR) 112 1.18 (1.00, 1.80) 1.80 (1.13, 3.25) 0.01 0.258 0.006
LV relaxation septal - E' (m/sec), median (IQR) 146 0.06 (0.05, 0.08) 0.06 (0.04, 0.07) 0.047 −0.203 0.01
Filling pressure septal (medial) - E/E' (m/sec), median (IQR) 143 13.3 (10.0, 18.2) 18.3 (13.3, 26.7) <0.001 0.398 <0.0001
LA volume index (mL/m2), median (IQR) 113 40.3 (31.7, 47.3) 53.9 (39.8, 63.1) <0.001 0.386 <0.0001
RVSP (mmHg), median (IQR) 103 35.7 (32.0, 43.6) 48.4 (36.4, 56.0) <0.001 0.413 <0.0001
LV mass index (g/m2), median (IQR) 117 65.6 (56.5, 83.3) 80 (67, 103) 0.006 0.227 0.01
LV hypertrophy, N (%) 117 22 (37.9) 35 (59.3) 0.021 0.234 0.01
LV end diastolic volume index (mL/m2), median (IQR) 79 48.8 (42.8, 55.0) 55.8 (45.0, 65.2) 0.09 0.189 0.10
LV end systolic volume index (mL/m2), median (IQR) 79 18.4 (15.9, 22.5) 23.0 (16.4, 30.7) 0.13 0.158 0.16
LVEF (%),median (IQR) 159 60.5 (57.5, 68.0) 60 (55, 65) 0.24 −0.134 0.09
Baseline cardiac MRI
LV stroke volume (mL), median (IQR) 88 67.2 (60.3, 82.3) 81.2 (69.2, 94.1) 0.05 0.121 0.27
LV mass index (g/m2), median (IQR) 88 59.7 (49.3, 73.0) 63.8 (54.1, 85.5) 0.10 0.218 0.04
LV end diastolic volume index (mL/m2), median (IQR) 88 50.4 (43.1, 58.4) 60.6 (53.9, 69.3) 0.004 0.225 0.04
LV end systolic volume index (mL/m2), median (IQR) 88 17.3 (14.0, 22.1) 22.3 (18.8, 27.3) 0.02 0.186 0.08
LVEF (%), median (IQR) 88 67.2 (59.6, 72.1) 63.7 (57.3, 68.3) 0.20 −0.101 0.35
Cardiac index (L/min/m2), median (IQR) 87 2.23 (1.82, 2.52) 2.4 (2.01, 2.77) 0.17 0.106 0.33
Aortic distensibility (10−3 mmHg−1), median (IQR) 61 1.22 (0.74, 2.05) 0.79 (0.55, 1.70) 0.08 −0.301 0.02

CPET
Baseline peak VO2 (ml/min/kg), median (IQR) 160 13.2 (11.1, 16.1) 11.1 (9.9, 13.4) <0.0001 −0.339 <0.0001

MV= mitral valve, IQR= interquartile range, LV= left ventricle, LA= left atrium, RVSP= estimated right ventricular systolic pressure, LVEF= left ventricular ejection fraction, MRI= magnetic resonance imaging, CPET= cardiopulmonary exercise testing, VO2max= peak oxygen consumption