Assessment of subclinical myocardial dysfunctions in Egyptian children with celiac disease, a cross-sectional study

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Table 3 Pulsed wave Doppler imaging measurements in celiac disease patients and healthy controls

Conventional pulsed Doppler parameters (cm/s)	Cases (n = 42)	Controls (n = 36)	P value
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	P value
Tricuspid valve
E wave velocity	62.45 ± 17.79	82.83 ± 6.39	< 0.001
A wave velocity	43.95 ± 16.05	44.08 ± 3.24	0.968
E/A ratio	1.45 ± 0.31	1.89 ± 0.19	< 0.001
DT	93.48 ± 25.4	93.17 ± 3.29	0.896
Mitral valve
E wave velocity	94.66 ± 14.71	97 ± 6	0.324
A wave velocity	55.43 ± 25.44	69.03 ± 3.21	0.001
E/A ratio	1.86 ± 0.56	1.41 ± 0.11	< 0.001
DT	91.63 ± 27.35	97.22 ± 8.7	0.261

SD standard deviation, P > 0.05 nonsignificant (NS), P < 0.05 significant (S), P < 0.01 highly significant (HS)