Ultrasonographic Prevalence and Factors Predicting Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: Is There a Correlation between the Grade of Diastolic Dysfunction and the Grade of Liver Disease?

Table 5

Results of multivariate regression analysis with regard to the presence or absence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction.

Parameter	𝑃 value	Odds ratio	95% confidence intervals
Age > 53 years	0.0078	4.1996	1.4604–12.0765
Ascites	NS (0.7110)	0.8031	0.2518–2.5616
Child-Pugh class (C versus A/B)	0.0415	4.6036	1.0605–19.9843
Use of betablockers	NS (0.5710)	1.377	0.4553–4.1640

NS: nonsignificant.