Assessment of cardiac function in children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia: a case control study in Cameroon

BMC Pediatrics

Table 7 Correlation between cardiac function parameters and age at diagnosis

Parameters	correlation coefficient (Spearman)	P value
LVEF	-0.1	0.685
SV	0.382	0.106
LVFS	0.004	0.988
LVMI	0.148	0.544
Cardiac output	0.441	0.059
Cardiac index	0.202	0.408
E/A Ratio	0.247	0.307
E wave velocity	0.191	0.434
A wave velocity	−0.257	0.289
Mitral deceleration time	0.371	0.118
LAD	0.492	0.033
TAPSE	0.447	0.055
Systolic pulmonary pressure	−0.057	0.817
Aortic diameter	0.825	0.000

LEVF Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction, SV Stroke Volume, LVFS Left Ventricular Fractional Shortening, LVMI Left Ventricular Mass Index, LAD Left Atrial Diameter, TAPSE Tricuspid Annular Plane Systolic Excursion
The bold texts represent the result with a statistically significant differences

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