Table 3.

Age-, Sex-, Cohort-Adjusted Pearson’s Correlations Between Liver Phantom Ratio and Markers of Subclinical Myocardial Dysfunction

	More Liver Fat	P-value
Cardiac Structure
LV wall mass index	−0.01	0.66
LV wall thickness	0.16	<0.0001
LV diameter at end-diastole	0.00	0.85
LV diameter at end-systole	0.01	0.74
LV end-diastolic volume index	0.13	<0.001
LV end-systolic volume index	0.08	<0.001
Regional wall thickness	0.11	<0.0001
Mass volume ratio	0.16	<0.0001
LV Systolic Function
Global systolic longitudinal strain	0.13	<0.0001
Fractional shortening	−0.01	0.77
Ejection fraction	0.00	0.83
LV Diastolic Function
Mitral peak velocity (E)	0.07	<0.01
Diastolic annular velocity (e’)	−0.12	<0.0001
LV filling pressure (E/e’)	0.15	<0.0001
E/A ratio	−0.10	<0.0001

LV, left ventricular; LPR, liver phantom ratio