Clinical Study

Brachial-Ankle Pulse Wave Velocity Is the Only Index of Arterial Stiffness That Correlates with a Mitral Valve Indices of Diastolic Dysfunction, but No Index Correlates with Left Atrial Size

Table 4

Multivariate analysis for cfPWV.

ModelUnstandardizedStandardizedSig95% Confidence
BetaS.E.Beta for beta

E/A −21.990278.229−.024−.079.937−587.418543.438
Age26.3566.415.6114.108.00013.31939.393
SBP22.9978.170.8332.815.0086.39539.600
PP−18.87610.720−.537−1.761.087−40.6612.909

SBP is systolic blood pressure.
PP is pulse pressure.