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.