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Table 3.

The relation between the IMPR and the patients’ characteristics (terciles for age, LVEF and EXT1 or pentiles for BMI)

Categorical variables	Mean IMPR (%) ± SD	P
Age
≤ 56 years > 56 years but ≤ 64 years > 64 years	22.7 ± 32 24.4 ± 32 27.7 ± 46.7	0.8681
Gender
Male Female	27.3 ± 43.5 23.9 ± 34.4	0.4961
BMI
≤ 25 > 25 but ≤ 30 > 30 but ≤ 35 > 35 but ≤ 40 > 40	22.4 ± 35 24.1 ± 33.8 31 ± 47.7 18.7 ± 23.7 15.2 ± 27.6	0.5928
LVEF
≤ 42% > 42% but ≤ 50% > 50%	20.2 ± 32.8 29.6 ± 44.3 23.9 ± 30.6	0.0268
EXT1
≤ 5.7 METs > 5.7 METs but ≤ 8.4 METs > 8.4 METs	39.7 ± 50.4 26.9 ± 27.2 7.8 ± 18.4	< 0.0001

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Acknowledgments

We thank Mr. Janusz Wróblewski, for his linguistic help with the manuscript and Ms. Aneta Rózga for her statistical calculations.

Author contributions

BUL and TR: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—original draft. EW, KWD and UCG: Investigation, Date curation. JDK and MK: Validation, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

The protocol of presented study was approved by the Local Ethics Commission at Medical University of Lodz, Poland. This manuscript complies with the Declaration of Helsinki.

Consent to participate

Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all participants.

Consent to publication

Not applicable.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets analyzed for this study can be obtained from the corresponding author.

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