Results
IBM SPSS statistics 24 package was used for data analysis. All values were expressed as mean (SD).
A total of 84 healthy subjects (51 women and 33 men) aged 30-50 were included. The mean age of participants was 36.3 (5.4) years old. The body surface area (BSA) was 1.76(0.20) Kg/m2. The mean heart rate of the study population was 77.5 (11) beats per minute.
Table 1 demonstrates the minimum, maximum, and mean values of echocardiographic variables in study participants. The independent sample T-test detected a significant difference in the mean TAPSE-slope between men and women (P value=0.001).
Table 1. Descriptive statistics of TAPSE, TAPSE-t, TAPSE-slope