Impaired myocardial deformation and ventricular vascular coupling in obese adolescents with dysglycemia

Table 5 Strain parameters in obese adolescents with normoglycemia (ONG) and dysglycemia (ODG)

	ONG n = 25		ODG n = 14		P# 1	P# 2
	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	P# 1	P# 2
Global long strain	− 21.00	3.01	− 19.18	2.75	0.0509	0.1961
Average long strain	− 18.97	3.67	− 17.87	2.49	0.0898	0.4548
Global circ strain	− 25.80	5.25	− 23.95	3.05	0.0346	0.0336
Average circ strain	− 22.47	5.80	− 20.90	1.90	0.0495	0.0324
Average radial strain	33.96	13.18	33.02	14.09	0.8005	0.7129
Average long strain rate	− 0.95	0.25	− 1.10	0.24	0.5888	0.6037
Average circ strain rate	− 1.27	0.30	− 1.32	0.25	0.7041	0.8844

IQR interquartile range
P value 1 was calculated from univariate linear regression; long = longitudinal, and circ = circumferential
P value # 2 was calculated from multivariate linear regression adjusted for BMI, systolic and diastolic blood pressure

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