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Table 3 Correlation between different echocardiographic variables in patients with DM and control group

From: The correlation between epicardial fat thickness and longitudinal left atrial reservoir strain in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and controls

Correlations
DM			Epicardial fat thickness	LARS	LVGLS	Indexed LV mass	E/e’
DM	Epicardial fat thickness	Pearson Correlation	1	− 0.256	− 0.098	0.092	0.299
	Epicardial fat thickness	P value		0.043	0.446	0.487	0.020
	LARS	Pearson Correlation	− 0.256	1	0.007	0.016	− 0.034
	LARS	P value	0.043		0.954	0.901	0.798
	LVGLS	Pearson Correlation	− 0.098	0.007	1	− 0.044	− 0.152
	LVGLS	P value	0.446	0.954		0.737	0.247
	Indexed LV mass	Pearson Correlation	0.092	0.016	− 0.044	1	− 0.135
	Indexed LV mass	P value	0.487	0.901	0.737		0.318
	E/e'	Pearson Correlation	0.299	− 0.034	− 0.152	− 0.135	1
	E/e'	P value	0.020	0.798	0.247	0.318
No DM	Epicardial fat thickness	Pearson Correlation	1	− 0.212	0.293	0.682	0.237
	Epicardial fat thickness	P value		0.261	0.116	<0.001	0.215
	LARS	Pearson Correlation	− 0.212	1	− 0.190	− 0.075	− 0.104
	LARS	P value	0.261		0.314	0.692	0.590
	LVGLS	Pearson Correlation	0.293	− 0.190	1	− 0.066	− 0.079
	LVGLS	P value	0.116	0.314		0.730	0.685
	Indexed LV mass	Pearson Correlation	0.682	− 0.075	− 0.066	1	0.460
	Indexed LV mass	P value	<0.001	0.692	0.730		0.012
	E/e'	Pearson Correlation	0.237	− 0.104	− 0.079	0.460	1
	E/e'	P value	0.215	0.590	0.685	0.012

DM diabetes mellitus, LA left atrium, LV left ventricle, LVGLS left ventricular global longitudinal strain, LA left atrium, E/e' transmitral doppler early diastolic velocity/mitral annular early diastolic velocity, LARS left atrial reservoir strain

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