Table 5 Influence of different demographic, clinical, and echocardiographic parameters on LA phasic function and global longitudinal strain in patients with moderate and severe aortic stenosis

	LA TotEF (%)		LA PassEF (%)		LA ActEF (%)		LASr (%) (%)
	β	β*	β	*β	β	β*	β	β*
Age (years)	−0.11	−0.07	−0.10	−0.08	−0.18^†	−0.09	−0.10	−0.08
SBP (mmHg)	−0.36^‡	−0.27^†	−0.18^†	−0.12	−0.38^‡	−0.31^‡	−0.28^†	−0.11
BMI (kg/m²)	−0.12	−0.10	−0.11	−0.09	−0.11	−0.08	−0.11	−0.09
LV EF (%)	0.11	0.13	0.13	0.12	0.14^†	0.10	−0.12	−0.10
LV mass index (g/m²)	−0.35^‡	−0.32^‡	−0.32^‡	−0.17^†	−0.35^‡	−0.28^†	−0.32^‡	−0.26^‡
E/e’	−0.19^†	−0.17^†	−0.27^†	−0.11	−0.30^‡	−0.21	−0.23^†	−0.10
Mean AV gradient (mmHg)	−0.32^‡	−0.28^†	−0.29^‡	−0.20^‡	−0.36^‡	−0.32^‡	−0.30^‡	−0.26^†
r ²		0.54		0.48		0.58		0.50

ActEF active emptying fraction, AV aortic valve, BMI body mass index, E early diastolic mitral flow (pulse Doppler), e´ early diastolic flow velocity across the septal segment of mitral annulus (tissue Doppler), EF ejection fraction, LA left atrium, LASR strain during reservoir phase, PassEF passive emptying fraction, LV left ventricle, SBP systolic blood pressure, TotEF – total emptying fraction. ^†p < 0.05, ^‡p < 0.01, ^βcoefficient of univariate regression analysis, ^β*coefficient of multivariate regression analysis

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