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. 2018 Jul 9;9:817. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.00817

Table 1.

Serial echocardiographic examination in sham and DOCA mice between young and aging groups.

Young Aging Two-way ANOVA %, P-value
Sham DOCA Sham DOCA Interaction Age Disease



IVSd (mm) 0.69 ± 0.03 1.02 ± 0.05 0.67 ± 0.03 1.01 ± 0.03 0.004%, P = 0.95 0.33%, P = 0.56 80.6%, P < 0.0001
IVSs (mm) 1.14 ± 0.03 1.31 ± 0.04 1.04 ± 0.03 1.37 ± 0.04 12.8%, P = 0.052 3.8%, P = 0.27 26.2%, P = 0.0078
LVIDd (mm) 3.94 ± 0.07 3.72 ± 0.16 3.85 ± 0.05 3.66 ± 0.13 0.04%, P = 0.93 1.7%, P = 0.53 12.3%, P = 0.10
LVIDs (mm) 2.55 ± 0.07 2.48 ± 0.16 2.68 ± 0.04 2.41 ± 0.17 2.5%, P = 0.46 0.3%, P = 0.81 7.5%, P = 0.21
LVPWd (mm) 0.72 ± 0.03 0.85 ± 0.04 0.73 ± 0.02 0.88 ± 0.01∗∗ 1.7%, P = 0.40 2.6%, P = 0.31 46%, P < 0.0001
LVPWs (mm) 1.12 ± 0.04 1.13 ± 0.03 0.96 ± 0.04 1.21 ± 0.05∗∗ 19.4%, P = 0.017 2.0%, P = 0.41 24.1%, P = 0.0086
Fractional shortening (%) 35% ± 2 34% ± 3 30% ± 2 35% ± 3 5.5%, P = 0.28 3.0%, P = 0.42 1.6%, P = 0.56

All results are shown as mean ± SEM. Sample size: n = 6 per group for all groups besides aging DOCA (n = 7). Sham vs. DOCA. q < 0.05, ∗∗q < 0.01. LVIDs, left ventricular internal dimension systolic; LVIDd, left ventricular internal dimension diastolic; FS, fractional shortening; LVPWd, left ventricular posterior wall dimension at diastole; LVPWs, left ventricular posterior wall dimension at systole; IVSd, interventricular septal dimension at diastole; IVSs, interventricular septal dimension at systole.