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- Title
Subclinical left ventricular dysfunction and coronary atherosclerosis in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes.
- Authors
Scholte, Arthur J. H. A.; Nucifora, Gaetano; Delgado, Victoria; Djaberi, Roxana; Boogers, Mark J.; Schuijf, Joanne D.; Kharagjitsingh, Antje V.; Jukema, J. Wouter; van der Wall, Ernst E.; Kroft, Lucia J.; de Roos, Albert; Bax, Jeroen J.
- Abstract
Aims The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether subclinical left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction is independently related to subclinical coronary atherosclerosis in type 2 diabetic patients and if it could provide incremental information over baseline characteristics to identify high-risk patients. Methods and results A total of 234 asymptomatic, type 2 diabetic patients without overt LV systolic dysfunction underwent coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring and two-dimensional echocardiography. The LV global longitudinal strain (GLS) was assessed using automated function imaging. Patients with coronary atherosclerosis (CAC > 0; n = 139) had more impaired GLS when compared with patients without coronary atherosclerosis (CAC = 0; n = 95; −18.0 ± 2.8 vs. −16.3 ± 3.0%, P < 0.001). At multivariate analysis, male gender, hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, and the LV GLS were independently associated with coronary atherosclerosis. The addition of the LV GLS to other selected independent clinical variables significantly improved the ability to predict coronary atherosclerosis in these patients (χ2 = 58.92; P = 0.001). Conclusion Type 2 diabetic patients with coronary atherosclerosis showed a more impaired LV GLS compared with patients without coronary atherosclerosis. The presence of subclinical LV systolic dysfunction provides significant incremental value for the identification of diabetic patients having coronary atherosclerosis.
- Subjects
HEART ventricle diseases; ANALYSIS of variance; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factors; CHI-squared test; COMPUTER software; CONFIDENCE intervals; CORONARY disease; DOPPLER echocardiography; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LEFT heart ventricle; LONGITUDINAL method; MULTIVARIATE analysis; TYPE 2 diabetes; RESEARCH evaluation; STATISTICAL sampling; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); COMORBIDITY; DATA analysis; MULTIPLE regression analysis; INTER-observer reliability; ETIOLOGY of diseases; DISEASE complications
- Publication
European Journal of Echocardiography, 2011, Vol 12, Issue 2, p148
- ISSN
1525-2167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ejechocard/jeq165