Table 5.

LVEF in patients with indeterminate and cardiac form of Chagas disease

	Stage	n	Mean	SD	P-valuea
LVEF (%)	Indeterminate	164	70.6	6.4
	A	112	69.2	7.5
	B1	107	56.4	9.6*†	< 0.001
	B2	18	39.6	5.4*†‡
	C	78	31.2	9.9*†‡
	D	18	29.9	10.6*†‡#ǁ

^aOne-way ANOVA Bonferroni post-hoc 

*P < 0.05 vs indeterminate; †P < 0.05 vs stage A; ‡P < 0.05 vs stage B1; #P < 0.05 vs stage B2; ǁP < 0.05 vs stage C