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Table 5 Abnormal TGLS, defined as a positive TGLS, among healthy controls and patients with HCM with normal or hypertrophic segments

From: Layer‐specific strain echocardiography may reflect regional myocardial impairment in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Variables

Healthy controls

HCM patients

normal segments

HCM patients

hypertrophic segments

p value

TGLS > 0.0 %, n

6

61

156

/

TGLS ≤ 0.0 %, n

534

481

188

/

Ratio of > 0.0 %

1.1 % (6/540)

11.3 % (61/542)

45.3 % (156/344)

< 0.001

  1. TGLS transmural gradient of longitudinal strain; HCM hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The chi-square test was performed for 2-group comparisons among the 3 groups. The p values obtained in all the tests were < 0.001. A p value of < 0.017 was assumed to be significant.