Global peak left atrial longitudinal strain assessed by transthoracic echocardiography is a good predictor of left atrial appendage thrombus in patients in sinus rhythm with heart failure and very low ejection fraction – an observational study

Table 3 Ranking of potential predictors for LAAT incidence in the study population based on univariate regression analyses. Sorted by the highest predictive value with Gini coefficients

	OR	−95% CI OR	95% CI OR	p-value	Gini coefficient
Global PALS (%)	0.43	0.29	0.65	< 0.001	0.65
LAVI (ml/m²)	1.06	1.01	1.11	0.01	0.44
Global PACS (%)	1.67	1.02	2.75	0.04	0.36
Other antiplatelet agent	3.27	0.86	12.39	0.08	0.18
Ischaemic HF etiology	2.14	0.71	6.4	0.18	0.18
ACE-I or ARB	2.37	0.67	8.34	0.18	0.17
Diabetes	0.56	0.17	1.84	0.34	0.12
BSA (m²)	0.26	0.01	5.73	0.4	0.11
E/A	1.31	0.80	2.16	0.28	0.1
LA diameter (cm)	0.71	0.2	2.51	0.59	0.1
E/e`	0.99	0.92	1.05	0.66	0.1
CHA₂DS₂-VASc score	1.02	0.75	1.39	0.9	0.08
BMI (kg/m2)	0.99	0.88	1.11	0.82	0.07
Heart rate (bpm)	0.98	0.94	1.03	0.5	0.06
History of stroke or TIA	1.72	0.35	8.54	0.51	0.06
MRA	0.65	0.16	2.62	0.54	0.06
Aspirin	1.3	0.30	5.51	0.73	0.04
NYHA class					0.03
II	1.4	0.48	4.08	0.54
III	0.67	0.31	1.45	0.31
IV	1.07	0.48	2.38	0.88
Beta-blocker	0.68	0.10	4.4	0.68	0.03
Statin	0.89	0.30	2.64	0.83	0.03
Age (years)	1.01	0.96	1.06	0.67	0.02
Hypertension	1.06	0.37	3.08	0.91	0.02
LVEF (%)	0.97	0.85	1.11	0.66	0.01
Chronic kidney disease	1.03	0.36	3.00	0.95	0.01
LAA (cm²)	0.99	0.92	1.07	0.85	0

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