Cardiac Diastolic Evaluation in Pregnant Women with Abnormal Glucose Tolerance: An Opportunity to Detect the Early and Subclinical Alterations and Prevent Cardiovascular Diseases

Table 4

Correlation analyses between HOMA-IR, QUICKI, and significantly different cardiovascular markers.

	OVERALL woman		AGT woman		NGT woman
	𝑅	𝑃	𝑅	𝑃	𝑅	𝑃
HOMA-IR
Systolic blood pressure	0.304	0.003	0.325	0.03	0.220	0.13
Diastolic blood pressure	0.439	<0.0001	0.445	0.002	0.338	0.02
Interventricular septum during diastole	0.199	0.05	0.075	0.62	0.214	0.15
Transmitral 𝐴 velocity	0.309	0.002	0.291	0.05	0.128	0.39
Lateral 𝐴^′ velocity	−0.022	0.83	−0.037	0.81	−0.201	0.18
𝐸^′/𝐴^′ ratio	−0.015	0.89	−0.011	0.94	0.141	0.34
QUICKI
Systolic blood pressure	−0.183	0.08	−0.218	0.15	−0.093	0.53
Diastolic blood pressure	−0.354	<0.0001	−0.426	0.003	−0.218	0.14
Interventricular septum during diastole	−0.158	0.13	−0.138	0.36	−0.052	0.73
Transmitral 𝐴 velocity	−0.367	<0.0001	−0.348	0.02	−0.256	0.08
Lateral 𝐴^′ velocity	−0.029	0.78	−0.048	0.75	0.108	0.47
𝐸^′/𝐴^′ ratio	0.027	0.80	0.011	0.95	−0.075	0.62