Speckle-Tracking and Tissue-Doppler Stress Echocardiography in Arterial Hypertension: A Sensitive Tool for Detection of Subclinical LV Impairment

Figure 2

Longitudinal strain rate at rest and during physical stress echocardiography in hypertensive patients and healthy controls assessed with tissue-Doppler and speckle-tracking. TDI: tissue-Doppler imaging; STE: speckle-tracking echocardiography; ; ; values were calculated with the Mann-Whitney test and Wilcoxon signed-rank test.