Left ventricular functional recovery of infarcted and remote myocardium after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (METOCARD-CNIC randomized clinical trial substudy)

Table 1 The effect of early intravenous metoprolol on infarct and remote zone strain

	Infarct zone circumferential strain (%)				Remote zone circumferential strain (%)
	1 week	6 months	MD [95% CI]	P-value*	1 week	6 months	MD [95% CI]	P-value*
Metoprolol (N = 97)	−9.9 ± 7.6	− 15.7 ± 7.5	−5.7 [− 6.8 to − 4.6]	< 0.001	−19.7 ± 3.6	− 19.2 ± 4.1	0.6 [− 0.2 to 1.3]	0.153
Control (N = 94)	−7.2 ± 10.1	−13.2 ± 8.3	−6.0 [− 7.7 to − 4.2]	< 0.001	− 19.3 ± 7.5	− 19.3 ± 3.7	0.0 [− 1.4 to 1.4]	0.984
MD [95% CI]	−2.7 [− 5.3 to − 0.1]	−2.5 [− 4.7 to − 0.2]			−0.5 [− 2.1 to 1.2]	0.1 [− 1.0 to 1.2]
P-value†	0.038	0.033			0.589	0.876

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