Association between abdominal adiposity and subclinical measures of left-ventricular remodeling in diabetics, prediabetics and normal controls without history of cardiovascular disease as measured by magnetic resonance imaging: results from the KORA-FF4 Study

Table 3 Effect of diabetic status in the association of adiposity with LV parameters

	Controls	Pre-diabetics	Diabetics	p value inter-action
	β (95% CI)	β (95% CI)	β (95% CI)	p value inter-action
VAT—LVCI	0.11 (0.08; 0.15)	0.10 (0.03; 0.16)	0.16 (0.04; 0.28)	0.74
VAT—LVEDV	− 6.59 (− 8.81; − 4.36)	− 3.91 (− 7.05; − 0.77)	− 4.18 (− 9.7; 1.34)	0.77
VAT—LVSV	− 4.03 (− 5.62; − 2.44)	− 2.46 (− 4.4; − 0.53)	− 3.90 (− 6.86; − 0.94)	0.81

The β-coefficients represent change in LV parameters for one standard deviation increment in VAT estimated by linear regression (adjusted for sex, age); the models were not fit for the association between VAT and LVM since they were non-significant after adjustment for age and gender (Table 2)
VAT visceral adipose tissue, LV left-ventricular, LVCI left-ventricular concentricity index (mL/g), LVEDV left-ventricular end-diastolic volume (mL/m²), LVSV left ventricular stroke volume (mL/m²)

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