Increased C reactive protein, cardiac troponin I and GLS are associated with myocardial inflammation in patients with non-ischemic heart failure.

Concerning the interrelation of cardiovascular risk factors with myocardial inflammation, only smoking was associated with myocardial inflammation in crude logistic regression analysis (OR 1.6687 [95%CI 1.113–2.500]; p = 0.013), but this association showed only a trend towards significance in the fully adjusted model (OR 1.659 [95%CI 1.000–2.753]; p = 0.050) (Table 4 , Fig. 4 ).

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