NPPB and diabetes mellitus: Based on the univariate Cox regression SARM was entered into a clinical Model including NT-proBNP, NYHA functional class III and IV and Diabetes (model 1, Table 5) and 2 echocardiographic models, the first consisting of LV longitudinal function parameters GLS, MAPSE and MASV (model 2, Table 5) and the second including EF and GLS as parameters of systolic LV function (model 3, Table 5).