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categories for the endocardium (p=0.785), mid-myocardium (p=0.494) and epicardium (p=0.283).
Intra- and inter-observer reproducibility for GLS measurements were excellent with an 2 intraclass correlation coefficients of 0.816 (95% confidence interval; 0.487 to 0.930) and
a interclass correlation coefficients of 0.772 (95% confidence interval; 0.437 to 0.909).
Figure 4. Layer specific left ventricular longitudinal strain across age categories. Means and 95% confidence intervals for layer-specific global longitudinal strain (endo-, mid- and epicardial layers) across the pre-determined age categories (X-axis) are displayed. There were no significant differences in global peak systolic strain across the age categories after adjusting for gender and diabetes mellitus in a linear mixed model.
Abbreviations: endo=endocardium, mid=mid-myocardial, epi=epicardium.
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