Research Article
Risk Factors for Asymptomatic Ventricular Dysfunction in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Table 1
Echocardiographic findings in RA patients compared with normal controls.
| | Variable | Patients with RA
| Controls
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| | Age (years) | | | 0.09 | | Gender (male/female), (%) | 22 (21)/83 (79) | 10 (24.4)/31 (75.6) | 0.65 | | Shortening fraction (%) | | | 0.06 | | Ejection fraction (%) | | | <0.0001 | | Left ventricular diastolic diameter (mm) | | | 0.06 | | Left ventricular systolic diameter (mm) | | | 0.013 | | Left atrial diameter (mm) | | | 0.01 | | Aortic diameter (mm) | | | 0.01 | | Ventricular septum (mm) | | | 0.01 | | Left ventricular posterior wall (mm) | | | 0.013 | | Right ventricular diastolic diameter (mm) | | | 0.01 | | Pulmonary artery systolic pressure (mmHg) | | | 0.01 | | Right atrium (mm) | | | 0.002 | | E/A ratio | | | 0.19 | | E wave deceleration time TDE (mm/s) | | | 0.29 |
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