Determinants of right atrial longitudinal strain are depicted in
Table 5
BMI was an independent predictor of RALS (i.e., BMI was a statistically
significant variable on both univariate and multivariate analyses). BMI
negatively correlated with RALS (r=-0.43, P=0.003). For example, in the
adjusted analyses, a unit increase in BMI resulted in a 0.72 decline in
RALS.