Factors associated with myocardial dysfunction
We found that smoking, previous history of myocardial infarction and
male gender were risk factors associated with left ventricular
myocardial dysfunction. For left atrial myocardial dysfunction, we found
smoking and dyslipidemia were associated factors. Finally, for both LV
and LA myocardial dysfunction, we found that the only associated factor
was male gender (Table 4) . Also, we found that those subjects
with eccentric hypertrophy had up to 3.4-fold (95% CI: 1.34-8.76)
higher probability for LV-dysfunction and a 2.3-fold (95% CI:
1.10-5.29) higher probability of having LA-dysfunction after adjusting
for the previously mentioned associated risk factors