Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Dialysis Patients Assessed by Novel Speckle Tracking Strain Rate Analysis: Prevalence and Determinants

Table 3

Uni- and multivariate logistic regression analysis to predict the presence of LV diastolic dysfunction (defined as 𝐸/SR_IVR≥236).

		Univariate			Multivariate
	HR	95% CI	𝑃-value	HR	95% CI	𝑃 value
Age	1.013	0.96–1.07	0.65
Male gender	1.56	0.55–4.37	0.40
Hemodialysis	2.98	1.15–7.75	0.025	2.64	0.75–9.21	0.13
Dialysis vintage (months)	1.016	1.00–1.04	0.085	1.013	0.99–1.03	0.22
Hypertension	10.45	1.25–87.16	0.03	4.91	0.46–51.83	0.19
DM	3.05	1.11–8.38	0.031	2.40	0.57–10.08	0.23
MI	1.65	0.60–4.55	0.33
LVMI	1.022	1.01–1.04	0.001	1.02	1.00–1.04	0.014
RWT	1.04	1.01–1.08	0.022	0.99	0.94–1.04	0.652
PWV	1.35	1.13–1.62	0.001	1.34	1.07–1.68	0.010

DM: diabetes mellitus; LVMI: left ventricular mass index; MI: myocardial infarction; PWV: pulse wave velocity; RWT: relative wall thickness.