Clinical utility of transthoracic echocardiography for screening abdominal aortic aneurysm: a prospective study in a Japanese population

Table 2 Multiple logistic regression analysis for predicting AAA

Variables	Hazard ratio	95 % CI	p value
Age (years)	1.05	1.01-1.09	0.013
Men, n (%)	1.27	0.57-2.90	0.562
Aortic root (mm)	1.23	1.13-1.33	<0.001
LV posterior wall thickness (mm)	1.55	0.93-2.67	0.10
LV end-diastolic dimension (mm)	1.23	0.98-1.53	0.067
LV end-systolic dimension (mm)	0.90	0.75-1.14	0.352
LV fractional shortening (%)	0.94	0.86-1.06	0.242
LV mass (g)	0.98	0.95-0.99	0.054
E (cm/sec)	1.00	0.97-1.02	0.741
E/A	0.68	0.17-1.70	0.489
E’ (cm/sec)	0.92	0.69-1.18	0.558
S’ (cm/sec)	0.86	0.66-1.10	0.235

Data are presented as mean ± SD or n (%). LV, left ventricular. E, Early diastolic LV inflow velocity; A, Late diastolic LV inflow velocity; E’, early diastolic septal mitral annular velocity; A’, late diastolic septal mitral annular velocity; S’, systolic septal mitral annular velocity; AAA = abdominal aortic aneurysm; CI, confidence interval

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