Variables | Healthy controls | HCM patients normal segments | HCM patients hypertrophic segments | p value |
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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 |
- 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.