Apical Sparing of Longitudinal Strain and Myocardial Fibrosis in Hypertensive Patients and Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats: Based on Speckle Tracking and Histological Analysis.

Clin Cardiol · 2026 · PMC12805527 · PMID 41537440

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.062so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

3.5 Global and Segmental Longitudinal Strain in WKY and SHR The SHR group exhibited a reduction in GLS, though this did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.062, Table 3 ).

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

For segmental longitudinal strain, it showed an increasing trend from basal to apical segments in WKY and SHR rats.

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a decreasing trendno p-value reported

LS‐mid and LS‐ap showed a decreasing trend, but still did not reach a statistically different level (Figure 2C ), as well as GLS.

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