Investigation of the correlation between cardiac parameters and aortic diameter in patients with ascending aortic aneurysm

The Egyptian Heart Journal

Table 6 Pearson correlations between morphologic and echocardiography variables

	Age	Ascending aorta diameter	Cardiac volume	Thorax diameter
IVSd
r	**0.333^B	0.036^A	*0.265^A	0.137^A
Sig. (p)	0.007	0.780	0.034	0.281
LVDd
r	0.146^A	0.225^A	**0.332^B	*0.299^A
Sig. (p)	0.253	0.077	0.008	0.017
LVPWd
r	− 0.72^A	0.113^A	0.101^A	0.157^A
Sig. (p)	0.574	0.372	0.427	0.216
LVDs
r	0.074^A	0.220^A	**− 0.383^B−	− 0.186^A
Sig. (p)	0.019	0.341	0.004	0.108
LVEF
r	− 0.269^A	− 0.111^A	**− 0.324^B−	− 0.186^A
Sig. (p)	0.019	0.341	0.004	0.108
LAD
r	− 0.188^A	− 0.016^A	0.016^A	− 0.149^A
Sig. (p)	0.162	0.904	0.907	0.269

LAD: left atrial dimension, LVDd: left ventricular end-diastolic dimension, LVDs: left ventricular end-systolic dimension, LVEF: left ventricular ejection fraction, LVPWd: left ventricular posterior wall thickness,, IVSd: Interventricular septum at end diastole
*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)
**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)
^AVery week or Negligible correlation, ^B Low positive correlation, ^B−Low negative correlation