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Table 1 Demographic, clinical, echocardiographic and cardiovascular MRI measurements

From: Impact of obesity and epicardial fat on early left atrial dysfunction assessed by cardiac MRI strain analysis

 

Healthy volunteers

ObT2D

HV/ObT2D

(n = 19)

(n = 20)

p value

A. subject characteristics

 Age (years)

47.5 ± 12.5

54.6 ± 7.8

 

 Women (%)

45

40.0

 

 HbA1c (%)

8.5 ± 1.0

 

 Duration of diabetes (years)

11.3 ± 6.1

 

 Proportion of patients taking lipid-lowering therapy (%)

100.0

 

 Proportion of patients taking anti-hypertensives (%)

80.0

 

 History of CVD (%)

30.0

 

 Body surface area (m2)

1.9 ± 0.2

2.2 ± 0.2

**

 Body mass index (kg/m2)

24.8 ± 2.6

39.7 ± 5.8

***

B. echocardiographic parameters in ObT2D patients

 Age (years)

 

54.6 ± 7.8

40–60

 Mitral peak E velocity (m/s)

 

0.75 ± 0.24

0.75 ± 0.17

 Mitral peak A velocity (m/s)

 

0.74 ± 0.18

0.62 ± 0.15

 E/A ratio

 

0.99 ± 0.28

1.24 ± 0.39

 E′ Lateral myocardium velocity (cm/s)

 

10.50 ± 2.4

12.5 ± 3.0

 E/E′ ratio

 

7.6 ± 3.7

6.3 ± 2.2

 Aortic valve peak velocity (m/s)

 

1.43 ± 0.57

 

C. MRI LV function parameters

 Indexed LV mass (g/m2)

75.1 ± 14.9

80.8 ± 16.1

 

 LV EDV (mL)

122.8 ± 24.0

130.8 ± 34.0

 

 LV ESV (mL)

49.4 ± 13.4

44.8 ± 18.6

 

 Indexed LV EDV (mL/m2)

63.8 ± 11.4

58.9 ± 13.4

 

 Indexed LV ESV (mL/m2)

25.7 ± 7.1

20.1 ± 7.3

*

 LV EF (%)

60.9 ± 7.4

66.1 ± 8.8

 

 Mean Mid. LV thickness (mm)

11.1 ± 2.0

12.9 ± 1.6

**

  1. A. subject characteristics
  2. B. echocardiographic LV function assessment in the ObT2D group
  3. C. MRI LV function assessment in the control and ObT2D groups
  4. Results are expressed as mean ± SD
  5. * p < 0.05
  6. ** p < 0.01
  7. *** p < 0.001