Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus have impaired strain and vascular function which is incremental to that caused by traditional risk factors: insights from Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Table 1 Demographic, clinical and CMR features in SLE, SLE with CVRFs, controls and controls with CVRFs.

	Normal controls N=39	Controls with CVRFs N=11	SLE N=11	SLE with CVRF N=19	P Value
Age (years)	44.6 ± 11.8	51.7 ± 8.9	37.0 ± 7.0	46.7 ± 10.7	0.02
Females (%)	38 (97.4)	11 (100)	11 (100)	18 (94.7)	0.77
BMI (kg/m²)	22.5 ± 2.3	27.5 ± 5.2	24.4 ± 2.5	30.5 ± 6.4	<0.001
LVEDV (ml) indexed to BSA	76.6 ± 12.1	79.3 ± 20.2	80.7 ± 16.1	70.3 ± 14.6	0.22
LVESV (ml) indexed to BSA	21.1 ± 5.4	19.8 ± 6.1	23.0 ± 10.5	20.3 ± 6.4	0.66
LVEF	72.5 ± 4.1	75.1 ± 5.3	72.6 ± 7.3	71.7 ± 3.7	0.27
LA size	2.7 ± 0.5	2.9 ± 0.5	3.0 ± 0.4	3.3 ± 0.6	<0.001

BMI, Body mass index; LVEDV, Left ventricular end diastolic volume; BSA, Body surface area; LVESV, Left ventricular end systolic volume; LVEF, Left ventricular ejection fraction; LA, left atrium.

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