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. 2020 Jul 23;22:51. doi: 10.1186/s12968-020-00647-7

Table 3.

Results of the Friedmann’s test to compare the different strain measurements in patients and healthy subjects, showing the adjusted significance level from the Dunn-Bonferoni post-hoc test (p) as well as the effect size (r) of the different comparisons

Patients (n = 57) p r
SENC vs. STE
 SENC vs. STE-FWLS 0.049 0.11
 SENC vs. STE-GLS 1.000 /
FT vs. STE
 Endo-FT vs. STE -FWLS < 0.001 0.18
 Myo-FT vs. STE-FWLS 0.059 /
 Endo-FT vs. STE-GLS < 0.001 0.36
 Myo-FT vs. STE-GLS < 0.001 0.28
SENC vs. FT
 SENC vs. Endo-FT < 0.001 0.29
 SENC vs. Myo-FT < 0.001 0.22
Healthy subjects (n = 17)
 SENC vs. FT
 SENC vs. Endo-FT < 0.001 0.47
 SENC vs. Myo-FT 0.006 0.26

Abbreviations: GLS Global longitudinal strain, FWLS Free wall longitudinal strain, STE Speckle tracking echocardiography, SENC Strain-encoding, FT Feature tracking, Endo-FT Subendocardial strain determined using FT, Myo-FT Midmyocardial strain determined using FT