Table 3.

Clinical and Conventional Echocardiographic Characteristics Associated with Indices of Cardiac Mechanics in Whites

Characteristic	Absolute LS, %			Absolute GCS, %			GRS, %			e’ velocity, cm/s			SRE, 1/s
	β	SE	P-value	β	SE	P-value	β	SE	P-value	β	SE	P-value	β	SE	P-value
Age, per 10 y increase	−0.09	0.07	0.20	0.89	0.12	<0.0001	0.71	0.28	0.01	−0.56	0.03	<0.0001	−0.06	0.01	<0.0001
Female sex	−1.18	0.18	<0.0001	−0.07	0.31	0.82	−0.41	0.73	0.58	0.16	0.08	0.07	−0.06	0.02	<0.0001
Hypertension	−0.32	0.19	0.09	1.90	0.31	<0.0001	1.36	0.75	0.07	−1.01	0.08	<0.0001	−0.12	0.01	<0.0001
SBP, per 10 mm Hg increase	−0.19	0.05	<0.0001	0.32	0.08	0.00	0.38	0.19	0.05	−0.19	0.02	<0.0001	−0.03	0.00	<0.0001
DBP, per 10 mm Hg increase	−0.49	0.09	<0.0001	0.07	0.16	0.64	0.14	0.37	0.70	−0.13	0.04	<0.0001	−0.04	0.01	<0.0001
Antihypertensive medication use	−0.01	0.19	0.97	1.96	0.31	<0.0001	1.78	0.74	0.02	−0.93	0.08	0.0001	−0.10	0.02	<0.0001
BMI, per 5 kg/m2 increase	−0.17	0.08	0.02	0.22	0.13	0.09	0.58	0.31	0.06	−0.18	0.04	<0.0001	−0.02	0.01	<0.0001
Smoking	0.08	0.20	0.69	−0.27	0.35	0.43	−0.38	0.82	0.64	0.06	0.09	0.55	0.00	0.02	0.86
Fasting glucose, per 10 mg/dl increase	−0.08	0.03	0.00	0.05	0.04	0.24	0.01	0.10	0.93	−0.05	0.01	<0.0001	−0.01	0.00	<0.0001
LVMI, per 10 g/m2 increase	−0.11	0.05	0.02	0.24	0.08	<0.0001	0.24	0.18	0.17	−0.13	0.02	<0.0001	−0.02	0.00	<0.0001
LVEF, per 5% decrease	−0.40	0.08	<0.0001	−0.77	0.13	<0.0001	−0.23	0.31	0.45	0.02	0.04	0.62	−0.02	0.01	<0.0001

^*Adjusted for speckle-tracking analyst, study site, image quality, and familial relatedness