4. Results
27 of 51 participants were female (52.9%) and mean ages of two study
population were similar (27.66 + 1.62 vs 27.13 + 1.01 for patients with
T2* ≤20ms and >20ms, respectively). Baseline
characterisitcs of study population shown in Table 1. We found that
LVEF3D (53.25 +2.33 vs 58.81 +1.02), SDI12 (6.53 +0.56 vs 2.85 +0.48),
SDI16 (7.65 +0.75 vs 3.26 +0.49), FMD (6.08% + 0.34 vs 14.46% + 1.12),
aortic strain (7.79% + 2.19 vs 12.76% + 4.19); and also serum ferritin
values were significantly different between groups with T2* ≤20ms and
>20ms, respectively (Table 2). For all parameters found
significantly different between two study groups, there were also
significant positive or negative correlations with T2* value (Figure 3).
Echocardiographic measurements were performed by two experienced
operators and repeated by same operator at another time; and perfect
inter-observer (k=0.89) and intra-observer (k = 0.92) agreements were
achieved.