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Figure 2 Relationship Between Mid-Wall Fractional Shortening and Circumferential Wall Stress

Patients with diastolic heart failure (DHF) and systolic dyssynchrony are shown by open circles, whereas patients with DHF but without dyssynchrony are shown by solid circles. The data points for patients with DHF and systolic dyssnchrony were outside the lower 95% prediction interval for the control group.