Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Clinical InvestigationLeft Ventricular MechanicsImpaired Myocardial Radial Function in Asymptomatic Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Speckle-Tracking Imaging Study
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Population and Study Protocol
We prospectively enrolled 114 consecutive patients with type 2 DM, referred to the outpatient clinic department of Louis Pradel Hospital (Lyon, France) between February 2006 and March 2008, and 88 age-matched healthy controls, previously enrolled in the Asklepios cohort between October 2002 and October 2004.20
The study inclusion criteria of patients with type 2 DM were as follows: age between 35 and 60 years; oral antidiabetic or insulin treatment; no symptoms, sign, or history of heart
Clinical Characteristics
Table 1 summarizes the clinical and biological characteristics of the age-matched diabetic and control populations. As a result of the selection of a low-risk control population, BMI was lower in the control group compared with the DM group. Mean duration of DM was 11 ± 7 years. In the DM group, 21% (24/114) were smokers, 38% (43/114) were treated for systemic hypertension, and 25% (28/114) were treated for hypercholesterolemia. Antidiabetic treatment consisted of metformin in 74% (84/114),
Discussion
The main finding of this study was to demonstrate a significant decrease in both radial and longitudinal systolic strain values by STI in patients with DM with normal conventional parameters (LVEF, FS) compared with age-matched controls and even more to age, gender, and BMI-paired controls. By multivariate analysis, we showed that the only predictors of decreased systolic strain in diabetic patients were DM and gender for εL and DM only for εR. In addition, the decrease in εR and εL was
Limitations
The DM patient group included more men than our control group. This might have affected the results concerning the difference of radial and longitudinal function between groups. However, the decrease in radial and longitudinal strain in patients with DM compared with controls was still observed when comparison was made between the two strictly paired subgroups in terms of age, gender, and BMI. Circumferential strain was not reported in our study because of high variability. However, FSm was
Conclusions
Patients with DM without overt heart disease display subclinical alteration of both radial and longitudinal LV systolic function even after adjustment for blood pressure, age, and BMI.
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