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

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Table 4 Multiple linear regression analysis determining independent correlation between different variables with LA longitudinal reservoir strain/LVGLS

Coefficients^a
Model		Unstandardized coefficients		Standardized coefficiets	t	P value	95.0% confidence interval for B
Model		B	Std. error	Beta	t	P value	Lower bound	Upper bound
1	(Constant)	4.846	2.766		1.752	0.084	− 0.671	10.364
	Age	− 0.020	0.025	− 0.127	− 0.810	0.420	− 0.070	0.030
	Epicardial fat thickness	− 0.136	0.077	− 0.232	− 1.758	0.083	− 0.290	0.018
	DM	− 0.083	0.431	− 0.026	− 0.192	0.848	− 0.943	0.777
	Indexed LV mass	0.016	0.004	1.048	3.784	<0.001	0.007	0.024
	BMI	− 0.016	0.048	− 0.041	− 0.337	0.737	− 0.112	0.080
	E/A	− 0.227	0.832	− 0.050	− 0.273	0.785	− 1.887	1.432
	E/e’	0.065	0.113	0.087	0.577	0.566	− 0.160	0.290
	HTN	− 0.601	0.370	− 0.197	− 1.628	0.108	− 1.339	0.136
	TG	0.002	0.002	0.126	1.081	0.283	− 0.002	0.007
	Chol	− 0.004	0.004	− 0.099	− 0.916	0.363	− 0.012	0.004
	Indexed LA volume	− 0.041	0.011	− 1.057	− 3.794	<0.001	− 0.063	− 0.019
	e ‘	0.123	0.131	0.195	0.936	0.353	− 0.139	0.385
	S’	− 0.058	0.146	− 0.053	− 0.398	0.692	− 0.350	0.233
11	(Constant)	3.060	0.361		8.470	<0.001	2.341	3.779
	Epicardial fat	− 0.143	0.061	− 0.243	− 2.338	0.022	− 0.264	− 0.021
	Indexed LV mass	0.012	0.003	0.832	3.765	<0.001	0.006	0.019
	Indexed LA volume	− 0.034	0.008	− 0.863	− 3.969	<0.001	− 0.050	− 0.017

DM diabetes mellitus, BMI body mass index, HTN hypertension, TG Triglyceride, Chol Cholesterol, LA Left atrium, LV Left ventricle, E/e’: transmitral doppler early diastolic velocity/mitral annular early diastolic velocity, A wave transmitral doppler late diastolic velocity, LARS left atrial reservoir strain, LVGLS left ventricular global longitudinal strain
^aDependent Variable: LARS/LVGLS