Table 2.

Echocardiographic Characteristics by Nutrition Group

	Bodyweight			P-Value#
Characteristic Mean (±SD) or N (%)	Malnourished (N=214)	Normal Bodyweight (N=570)	Obese (N=120)	Overall	Malnourished vs. Normal	Normal vs. Obese	Malnourished vs. Obese
Left Ventricular Dimensions, mean±SD
LV EDD* z-score	5.32±2.40	4.19±2.53	3.44±2.52	<0.001	<0.001	0.004	<0.001
LV ESD† z-score	7.00±2.92	5.79±2.80	5.02±2.91	<0.001	<0.001	0.014	<0.001
LV EDPT‡ z-score	−0.20±3.09	−0.56±2.45	−0.92±2.19	0.097
LV EDST§ z-score	−0.62±3.09	−0.87±1.81	−1.12±1.72	0.156
Ratio of LV EDPT/EDD	0.14±0.16	0.13±0.04	0.14±0.05	0.660
Ratio of LV EDPT/EDD z-score	−1.02±7.55	−1.35±2.35	−1.15±2.32	0.685
Functional Assessment
LV	−9.29±4.15	−8.01±3.77	−7.64±3.39	<0.001	<0.001	0.363	<0.001
Fractional Shortening z-score
Mitral Regurgitation	70 (79.5%)	146 (68.9%)	25(73.5%)	0.169
Left Atrial Dilatation	38 (43.7%)	66 (31.4%)	10(30.3%)	0.113

^*LV-EDD- left ventricle end diastolic dimension

^†LV-ESD- left ventricle end systolic dimension

^‡LV-EDPT- left ventricle end diastolic posterior wall thickness

^§§LV-EDST- left ventricle end diastolic septal thickness

^#Pair-wise comparison P values <0.017 are considered statistically significant, applying post hoc Bonferroni correction