Diastolic Cardiac Function Improvement by Liraglutide Is Mainly Body Weight Reduction Dependent but Independently Contributes to B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Reduction in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes with Preserved Ejection Fraction

Table 3

Multivariate linear regression to relative changes in B-type natriuretic peptide.

Variable	Coefficient	Standard error	value
∆Left ventricular diastolic diameter	3.146	0.014
/∆BMI	1.570	0.007
∆Left ventricular ejection fraction	0.444	0.007	0.36
∆Heart rate	0.276	0.007	0.53
∆Diastolic blood pressure	0.106	0.005	0.78
∆HbA1c	0.056	0.072	0.88

: wave to ratio on tissue Doppler echocardiography; BMI: body mass index. .