Table 4.

Echocardiographic data.

	3 months			6 months
	Control	SSB	p	Control	SSB	p
Heart rate (beats/minute)	378 ± 12	385 ± 7	0.675	401 ± 15	399 ± 13	0.777
Left ventricle measures
Internal diameter diastole (mm)	6.86 ± 0.11	6.82 ± 0.07	0.675	7.24 ± 0.19	7.03 ± 0.13	0.593
Internal diameter systole (mm)	3.68 ± 0.15	3.49 ± 0.18	0.965	3.93 ± 0.23	4.07 ± 0.20	0.600
Ejection fraction (%)	76 ± 2	79 ± 2	0.455	75 ± 2	71 ± 3	0.296
mass (mg)	780 ± 24	692 ± 41	0.065	854 ± 60	786 ± 55	0.679
Mitral inflow
Peak E wave (cm/s)	991 ± 64	968 ± 36	0.900	982 ± 67	904 ± 60	0.689
Peak A wave (m/s)	852 ± 68	867 ± 49	>.999	914 ± 60	826 ± 49	0.446
E/A ratio	1.18 ± 0.06	1.12 ± 0.05	0.654	1.08 ± 0.01	0.94 ± 0.16	0.778

SSB: Sugar-sweetened beverage.