Association of glycemic status and segmental left ventricular wall thickness in subjects without prior cardiovascular disease: a cross-sectional study

Table 2 Mean wall thickness grouped by level and region and myocardial mass

	All	Control	Prediabetes	P-value	Type 2 diabetes	P-value
	N = 359	N = 223	N = 92		N = 44
Wall thickness (mm): arithmetic mean of
All segments	9.1 ± 1.5	8.8 ± 1.4	9.9 ± 1.4	< 0.001	10.5 ± 1.6	< 0.001
Basal segments	9.6 ± 1.6	9.4 ± 1.6	10.4 ± 1.6	< 0.001	10.8 ± 1.7	< 0.001
Mid segments	9.2 ± 1.8	8.9 ± 1.6	10.3 ± 1.8	< 0.001	10.9 ± 2.1	< 0.001
Apical segments	8.2 ± 1.5	8.0 ± 1.4	8.7 ± 1.5	< 0.001	9.3 ± 1.6	< 0.001
Lateral segments	9.8 ± 1.6	9.3 ± 1.5	10.3 ± 1.4	< 0.001	10.8 ± 1.8	< 0.001
Septal segments	9.1 ± 1.6	8.7 ± 1.5	9.7 ± 1.4	< 0.001	10.3 ± 1.6	< 0.001
Anterior segments	9.4 ± 1.9	8.8 ± 1.7	10.0 ± 1.7	< 0.001	10.8 ± 2.2	< 0.001
Inferior segments	9.4 ± 1.5	9.0 ± 1.5	9.9 ± 1.4	< 0.001	10.4 ± 1.4	< 0.001
Myocardial mass (g/m²)	70.0 ± 13.9	69.0 ± 13.6	72.3 ± 13.0	0.1	75.9 ± 16.0	0.019

P-values are obtained from one-way ANOVA and Bonferroni corrected for the repeated comparisons to the control group

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