Independent Value of Cardiac Troponin T and Left Ventricular Global Longitudinal Strain in Predicting All-Cause Mortality among Stable Hemodialysis Patients with Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction

Table 3

Spearman’s correlation between cardiac troponin T (cTnT) concentrations and echocardiographic parameters.

Variables	𝑟𝑠	𝑃	Variables	𝑟𝑠	𝑃
LVEDVi	0.10	0.44	IVCe (cm)	0.209	0.07
LVMi	0.18	0.14
Systolic function			Diastolic function
LVEF (%)	−0.23	0.04*	Average E/𝑒^′	0.05	0.66
GLS (%)	0.44	<0.001*	𝑒^′ (cm/s)	−0.14	0.20
LSRs (sec^−1)	0.28	0.01*	𝐸 (m/s)	−0.08	0.46
CS (%)	0.23	0.049*	𝐴 (m/s)	−0.09	0.44
CSRs (sec^−1)	0.28	0.02*	𝐸/𝐴	−0.01	0.95
𝑠^′ (cm/s)	−0.10	0.39	LAVi	0.14	0.31

^∗𝑃<0.05.
Abbreviations: CS: average circumferential strain; CSRs: circumferential systolic strain rate; cTnT: cardiac troponin T; EDVi: end-diastolic volume index; EF: ejection fraction; 𝐸/𝑒^′: early transmitral velocity to tissue Doppler mitral annular early diastolic velocity ratio; GLS: global left ventricular peak systolic longitudinal strain; IVCe: end-expiratory inferior vena cava diameter; LAVi: left atrial volume index; LSRs: longitudinal systolic strain rate; LV: left ventricular; LVMi: left ventricular mass index; SRs: systolic strain rate; 𝑠^′: left ventricular systolic myocardial velocity.